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March 29, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…to all the pathetic, craven, cowardly excuses for politicians in both Scotland and the UK who think that they can blithely keep doing TV interviews and radio call-ins where they dodge the question of what a woman is all the way up to the next election, and thereby knowingly facilitate the criminal mutilation and sterilisation of children and the sexual abuse of vulnerable women in hospitals, prisons and rape refuges.
I am living for the day when someone in the Scottish media finds some courage from somewhere and asks Nicola Sturgeon, because she’s going to blink so fast her face might catch fire. But that phone will just keep on ringing until someone answers.
Aye it’s a difficult question to answer, nowadays.
Too much madness about.
I listened to Nick Ferrarri interviewing Keith Starmer on LBC Radio yesterday when he asked ” can a person with a penis be a woman” and he refused to answer point blank.
To me it’s quite simple If you have a penis then you’re a man and if you have a vagina, then you’re a woman.
A woman is an adult human female. Only women can get pregnant, give birth and subsequently breastfeed.
It’s really not difficult.
Blackhack – my definition too.
Having seen some person showing off a cervix in a jar I am wondering if our ‘under pressure ‘NHS has anything to do with it.
Al Nick was charged by her minders to dismantle the SNP and by rote the independence movement.
Not only that but she’s managed to split Scotland right down the middle along feminist lines.
Way to go lass, high achiever, there’ll be a place in the HOL for you my dear.
Wake up Scotland
Same! I cannot understand how this insanity has been allowed to continue. I will never forgive it and never forget.
its just TYPICAL Nicola being a FANNY!!!!!
We’re through the looking glass here people… But at least LC had the benefit of opioids to dream up that story. WTF Sturgeon etc. are on God only knows.
The problem here is not just sturgeon or the snp.
The problem is having the scottish devolved government in scotland.
For everything that befalls us here in scotland stems from having a falsified pretendy governance.
From stonewall to westminster, from civil servents to nuclear, from gender issues to closing down oil rigs in a fuel crises,
We can study that if they cannot abolish the devolved government as bj wished it can bring it down and destroy it and scotland from within.
It does not take a genius to observe the puppets in place sitting behind desks in scotlands devolved government.
Alister Jack nor mundell work to benifit scotland, like wise neither do the new version snp.
It is all a farce.
If I were to envisage where it is all going wrong in strategy it lies above the snp whom are mere puppets, and easily replaced under a regime change.
Our problem IS the devolved government.
Jail awaits
Jail awaits anyone who asks those questions.
Look – the last couple of days we’ve now got the word “criminal” associated to people who use the letter Z.
Jail is becoming the go-to way of dealing with awkward folk. All over Europe. There’s a lot of nasty in the future.
They need to get up to date with the advances in Medical Science.
The Foundation for Gender Specific Medicine
https://gendermed.org/about-us-2/
The Foundation
Founded in 2006 as a continuation of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine, Inc. (FGSM) is the first organization of its kind: it was established in response to the new interest in the direct investigation of women’s health that began in the early 1990’s and which revealed that the differences between men and women were not only completely unexpected but more than had been even imagined and involved every organ in the body. As the first studies began to be published, it became apparent that men could not be considered normative for the entire human race, but that direct testing of both sexes was necessary for an accurate view of not only normal physiology but of the sex-specific experience of the disease. A new science of gender-specific medicine emerged and continues to expand. Gender-specific medicine is not the study of women’s health; it is the study of ways in which biological sex and gender impact normal human function and the differences in men’s and women’s experience of disease.
The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine, Inc. is a unique collaboration between the private sector and academic medicine. The FGSM is dedicated to advancing and expanding our knowledge of the new discipline.
Mission And Purpose
We now know that even identical genes are expressed differently in males and females, making it even more crucial than we originally thought to consider the impact of sex on genomic manipulation. It is already clear that sex of the recipient and that of the donor impact outcome. Work on chimeras, in which tissues or cells from one species are implanted into another must consider sex as a variable in research protocols. The physiology of males and females is significantly different and researchers must assess the impact of gender on the data they harvest from such preparations. Similarly, work on artificial intelligence should take into account what we already know about the differences in the anatomy, chemistry and function of male and female brains.
Gender-specific medicine allows us to develop comprehensive, evidence-based, and unique educational programs that communicate the new knowledge to both healthcare professionals and the public. The FGSM envisions a time when gender-specific medicine will no longer be considered a specialty but instead will become an integrated aspect within all specialties of science and medicine.
See also this list of differences between men and women.
JUST THE FACTS
https://gendermed.org/just-the-facts/
I thought you were going to ask her if she’s a woman.
The devolved Scottish government is not our answer to a sensible, no nonsense forward looking Scotland.
We need a genuine soveriegn scottish people’s assemble.
Were people are picked at random akin to jury service, to serve for a set period only.
Never allowing repeated selections of the same people.
This will not allow corruption to build within its governance.
And will bring in new a wide varity of age groups and social sectors.
Working for one goal.
The wellbeing of Scotland and its people.
There is a need for change from the old political system.
I’ve thought for quite some time now that if Sturgeon and whatsisface (that wee guy with glasses) were shown a picture of a naked man and a naked woman and asked which is a man and which is a woman their only answer (if being true to their stated beliefs) could only be ‘I don’t know’.
I hope that phone rings soon
At the risk of being repetitive: humans cannot change sex:sex is immutable. Sex is binary: there are 2 sees, male and female. Sex is determined at conception and merely observed at birth. You can’t be born in the wrong body, believing so is a mental health issue. Most trans are not transsexuals but transvestites with all the paraphiliac baggage that entails.
She’d reply “do it to Julia” 😉
“I am living for the day when someone in the Scottish media finds some courage from somewhere and asks Nicola Sturgeon.”
That is very unlikely to happen, oh you’ll get the odd soft attack from the Herald and the Scotsman, but overall Sturgeon appears to be somewhat protected by the media that she’s helping to fund using Scottish taxpayers cash, she’s even got Murray Foote onboard at the SNP, Foote’s newsrag the Daily Record published the Vow.
This is another reason (among many) as to why Sturgeon will never hold an indyref, the media has too much on her, unlike Salmond who wants an indy Scotland and is vilified by the media.
The majority of politicians in the UK are so onboard with the woke agenda that the question of what is a woman (a human female from birth) that most dodge the question like SNP MSPs and MPs, you can keep your nose pressed firmly in the trough, as long as you don’t mention the Emperor has no clothes on.
Just a thought
But why is nobody also asking them
What is a man?
If being a woman is performance rather than biology
Then it has to be the same for a man
‘Adult human male’ is not going to pass muster
Can’t wait for Starmer to be asked
When did you start living authentically as a man?
@Habib Steele – Caroline Criado Perez has been shouting for years about the need to fully include women in *all* research, not just medical studies, and not make males the default sex for everything. Read her ‘Invisible Women’, it’s eye-opening.
It’s good that an organisation has been set up for the pupose, but what a pity they’re still confusing ‘sex’ and ‘gender’!
When the stupidity of the snp are out of office along with the stupidity of the greens.
It will be replaced with a more stupid diversity party.
The snp and the greens have to go, without doubt, they are bringing Scotland to its knees.
But they are not the top of the pyramid in Scotland creating these issues,
they are servants carrying out orders and instructions in a corrupted devolved governance whom swear an oath to the british crown or monarch as first responisbility.
Not to the well being of the Scottish population and Country.
We could not have these gender issues in Scotland if the british crown and government did not agree to it.
And now we see politicians down south unable to describe what a women is.
introductional experiments where often tried out here first. Such as poll tax.
As we follow the looming war crises we can see that the one glove works both hands each side of the border.
I have no problem seeing both the devolved government in Scotland as the experimental spearhead to introduce gender issues to britian, and then the british / UK government following on behind whilst not taken the blame.
The seesaw of political direction was the same with climate change.
Good cop, bad cop.
Working together hand in hand behind closed doors.
All politicians both sides of border know the difference between male and female.
You only have to observe the dress codes they follow in parliaments,
Men arrive in man suits and ties,
And women in frocks or more feminine attire,
This is pure ideology and global diversity propaganda.
We will never see All the conservative front and back benches arrive at PMs question time flowery frocks because they did not know if they were a man or a woman.
At some point a senior, elected non-Tory in good standing with their party will crack and say it. Theres everything to gain, and no reason why you shouldn’t speak the plain truth – with a heavy side order of compassion babble if needs be.
Anas should do it. Spectacular optics, a UK wide platform, he comes across as a pleasant guy, no-one would imagine any malice on his side, and the zeitgeist would be his. But I suppose his craven Labour soul means he won’t.
NS looked awful at the service today. She must be praying for that UN job opportunity. She looks utterly wretched.
This is the same in Scotland. As they themselves dress accordingly.
Every male politician knows they would not be taken seriously if they turned up in ladies clothes.
This gender nonsense is a political manoeuvre to divide the people as is climate change.
Or the virus was with vaccinated or unvaccinated.
All these political issues will eventually turn back on the very politicians spouting devision of the citizens.
Bringing the people to a weakened state fear over everything in the world going on to day, will assuredly one day backfire.
The last vestige of hope is that not one of us falls for a cashless society.
For then governments will have total control over the people.
Sharny dubs.
All these issues are meant to confuse the people. To weaken resistance, to break down logic, to divide people. To set one against the other.
People are ruled easier if they do not find concensus among each other.
Divide and rule is an old war method.
Sharny dubs.
All these issues are meant to confuse the people. To weaken resistance, to break down logic, to divide people. To set one against the other.
People are ruled easier if they do not find concensus among each other.
Divide and rule is an old war methodology.
Before everybody jumps on the Gender woo woo nonsense in the SNP and Greens it has been brought to my attention that an erm ‘female’ Tory candidate in my Local Council Ward is quite proud of the fact she has studied erm ‘Gender Studies’. FFS. They are everywhere.
Mike Cassidy.
Good question.
And ask the male politicians why they are all wearing suits and ties instead of frocks if they are not sure of the difference between male females, including dress code.
Clavie Cheil.
Interesting.
I wonder if they are married to the opposite sex, and what clothes they wear as personal identity when working.
I wonder if they have born children naturally.
Aye, put me down as plus one on that Stuart
Allium.
At some point a politician will crack and go against the gender nonsense because they will realise its a big vote winner.
Wonder when the unionists will leak the what’s app group messages or challenge Nicola properly on the ferries
When will the SNP wake up to the fact the unionists are protecting Nicola and ask themselves why
What I don’t understand is how these political party’s can have a Witch Hunt against all their own members who deviate from The Official Narrative (TON) when they cannot define what a ‘Witch’ is?
It’s like in Russia for many generations particularly the Stalinist era.
The government are never wrong is the rule of thumb and arrest or death follows.
If we were to vote on using the retaining male and female only the majority would be overwhelming so there is no chance of that option being selected.
Here we are in 2022 unable to call a fact a fact as the government and a tiny majority prevent it.
No harm to those that would like to change but I’d like to ask them cut the NHS budget for life saving transplants and cancer treatments in order to remove male appendages and female breast and supply them with hormone drugs for many years.
They can call themselves what they like in public and in administration but no penis enters female changing rooms or toilets as the evidence shows it puts half the population in danger.
I’d be happy for them to access disabled toilets to keep themselves and others safe.
Sorry but if my daughter was entering an area her Dad can’t go then no man will be walking past me to go in.
A female relative walked into a ladies loo recently to come face to face with a trans man leaving. Her first thought was that she had entered the mens toilet but soon realised that it was a trans person.
It was not a problem for her. After all he did not have a penis even though he looked like a male.
But it begs the question why aren’t trans men insisting on using the Gents if trans women are insisting on using the Ladies?
The answer is obvious of course. They are more than likely concerned for their safety in gents toilets if they still have a vagina. So why do women have to risk assaults with trans women in their toilet space yet trans men can still use the Ladies?
PS great to have you back Stu. Even if it is only the occasional article. I’ll take that.
Why oh why does Scotland always fall at the last hurdle to treacherous, treasonable barstewards!?
I can’t even say her name anymore without wanting to puke!
I hope Scotland gives the SNP a thumping at the ballot box!
This deliberate sabotage – especially when you see other organisations refuse to work with Stonewall.
Holyrood needs closing & this time our REAL parliament reconvened that doesn’t have a foreign power anywhere near it & not tied to any of their fancy acts bullshit! That’s how it should be. Scots didn’t join the Union to be obliterated & consumed to English rule.
You have only made one mistake – You credit the Scottish media with a miniscule amount of integrity – they have none.
However I believe that the SNP candidates and members are being asked this a whole lot. Chickens are coming home to roost. No thanks to Scotland’s mainstream media.
Hence the reason Sturgeon is looking so worried.
I recd an email from For Women Scotland celebrating their lawful win in the courts against the gender representation pish , they were informed they would receive full expenses , can anyone tell me if that is the REAL FULL EXPENSES incurred or the Alex Salmond expenses that don’t cover the FULL EXPENSES INCURRED , where you and your loved ones have NOT ONLY suffered reprehensible allegations and criminal charges and been found innocent by a jury of mainly females , your expenses award falls massively under the ACTUAL costs you have incurred to PROVE your innocence of the false allegations , not even taking into account the overwhelming stress you and your loved ones have suffered at the false allegations from the accusers and their accomplices in the MSM
YET the people who made these false reprehensible accusations have NEVER faced any investigation of their accused collusion nor have any of them had to pay for any legal representation resulting from their accusations
WHY are we the public having to pay all these legal expenses and costs for the incompetent and moronic actions of a Scottish government and MSP’S who continuously create policies and regulations that are vehemently opposed by the majority of citizens and inevitably prove their stupidity by being overturned by the courts
If these politicians are so insistent in passing legislation which they have been advised against then they SHOULD BE FORCED individually to pay for their stupidity , that way their belief in the policy would have some integrity
https://tinyurl.com/2yty2met
This is very interesting.
Half way through he talks about Twitter.
Prior to the 2019 GE, Jo Swinson made a complete erse of herself on a live radio broadcast after being asked by one caller to define a woman. Could’nt answer. Lost the vote and Amy Callahan SNP gained with only a majority of 146.
Point 1. Amy hen, take note.
Point 2. At least the Libdems gained financially by taking bribes, oops I mean funding from Ferring Pharmaceuticals – manufacturers of puberty blockers.
What is Keir Starmers excuse apart from having no integrity, no spine and no balls?
Disabled toilets are not disabled in any way. In the place where I work, on each floor there are ladies, disabled and gents toilets – each for an individual user.
The disabled toilets should be more accurately described as “disabled-friendly”. All the facilities eg, taps, flush buttons, etc, are at a lower height to be more accessible for wheelchair users.
These toilets are unisex and are not just for disabled people to use. Frequently, when the gents is occupied, I will make use of this unisex “disabled” toilet.
What’s the problem with trans people using the same unisex toilets rather than “transwomen” forcing themselves into the ladies toilet?
Ruby @6.12pm.
Carlson and his father have close ties with the CIA, Tucker even went to Nicaragua to fight against the Sandinistas.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson-biography-nicaragua-cia/279782/
I don’t think individual toilets are an issue apart from the fact that quite often the gent’s toilet seem to stink & men leave the seat up.
The bigger problem is probably in ‘powder rooms’ ladies toilets which women use to put on their make-up, brush their hair, go to sit down if they don’t feel well & such like. I’m thinking of venues that hold weddings & other function ie hotels, function suites, restaurants.
These spaces up until now have been considered women only spaces.
Republicofscotland says:
29 March, 2022 at 6:57 pm
Ruby @6.12pm.
Carlson and his father have close ties with the CIA
Doesn’t change the fact that he’s making a lot of sense in this video.
It would be great to hear a journalist in the UK saying something similar
Here’s another of his programmes
https://tinyurl.com/ywx4h7h3
I see Kirsty Blackman has been given David Linden`s spot at front bench in Westminster.
she has admitted to depression and mental health problems,
surely for her own sake she should have been allowed to stay on the back benches,
instead of the added pressure of the front bench,
do the SNP not care about their staff with mental health problems.
Replying to Scot Finlayson : I think sturgeon is quickly running out of allies. And the cowardly SNP MPs and MSPs are doing what they do best – trying to hide .
Unless there is a closet independence supporter working in mainstream television this question will never be asked as it would be the end of Sturgeon and the chance that someone like Joanna Cherry could take over the SNP. I wonder if there is an organised formal agreement not to do this? A question to ask SNP loyalists: if the British establishment is against the SNP and Sturgeon because they support independence then why don’t they ask the question which would be so damaging for her and the movement?
Ruby @7.31pm.
Does he make a lot of sense here.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-fox-news-ilhan-omar-857295/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/tucker-carlson-controversy-racist-women-clips
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fox-news-tucker-carlson-s-racist-attack-ketanji-brown-jackson-n1290811
You had a good go and so did Alex Salmond but the only group that can bring down Sturgeon are women’s rights activists. Perhaps donate the Wings money to womens groups? Some great victories by them in the courts recently.
Republicofscotland says:
29 March, 2022 at 7:54 pm
Ruby @7.31pm.
Does he make a lot of sense here.
Why are you asking?
The latest from Robin McAlpine.
“We have an entire class of person who runs Scotland and seems to run it on the basis that we’re bound to fail so best not to try. Sure that is our political leaders, but getting one more look at Scotland’s quango class is enough to get me riled. I worked closely with a number of big quangos and their Boards and they were never short of a quip about how it was best not to get above ourselves.”
The cringe is strong in Scots.
https://robinmcalpine.org/i-want-to-unlearn-being-scottish/
“Why are you asking?”
Because people like Carlson don’t change their spots, occasionally he and others like him will say something that strikes a cord with folk, you need to dig deeper to see the bigger picture.
Such as Carlson helped to hound, which eventually led to his dubious death of the journalist Gary Webb who exposed the CIA via the Contras, flooding the black areas of the USA with crack cocaine.
Carlson defended the CIA against Webb, claiming the CIA is a noble institution.
But then again who am I to tell you what to look out for.
Very well said, Stuart. As we can see from what is happening in America, transgender ideology is pernicious and will only lead to the moral collapse of society. And since Sturgeon is a flag-bearer for this ideology, she should be put on the spot and asked to define a woman.
Another way to look at it is to ask those who espouse such an ideology: Is it right to allow biological males access to women’s sports and female changing rooms? Is it right to allow biological males access to female toilets and other safe spaces reserved for women? Is it right to house biological males in female prisons or on female hospital wards? The dangers are all too apparent when the question is framed in this way.
Was it not Donald Trump who passed laws to say that you had to use the toilet according to your biological sex at birth? Perhaps a bit harsh on those who have undergone surgery, but certainly one way to counter this transgender nonsense!
Republicofscotland says:
29 March, 2022 at 8:30 pm
“Why are you asking?”
Because people like Carlson don’t change their spots, occasionally he and others like him will say something that strikes a cord with folk, you need to dig deeper to see the bigger picture.
I don’t have an issue with anything he said in the couple of videos that I posted.
Do you?
I have no interest in digging deeper on Carlson.
We have been coming at this from the wrong perspective. When I saw Nicola Sturgeon sitting behind the PM today maskless with her non elected politician husband. I knew the game was up. It’s about the exercise of power and nothing else. Everybody can tell who is a man or woman. I don’t mind if the FM has changed her mind about Scottish Independence. But the very least I expect is she declares that to SNP supporters. We need to know who we are voting for. For me, Mr Murrell being there was equally disturbing as Prince Andrew. Not that I don’t think rehabilitation is desirable for Prince Andrew but where is the scrutiny of the Murrells? The duplicity of the MSM.
It appears that the Brit Nat MSM and the Satanic Germanic Royals have rehabilitated their criminal sex offender.
It would appear to me that some people have the propensity for forgiveness and others don’t. Holding your 96 year old mum’s hand doesn’t mean forgiveness but a step or two towards a path to recovery I only wish David Goodwillie had that chance. It’s the same world for everyone. The madness of the MSM is clear to me. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. Before we are an Independent country we have to be able to have Independent thought. Sadly lacking these days.
How pathetic the latest Tory excuse for Party Gate and no media challenge to speak of.
With the situation in Ukraine Party Gate Lies don’t matter?
What it doesn’t matter that the Pathological Liar Boris is able to lie to parliament and the country but it is of no importance?
What the Met Police can’t read Sue Grays report on Party Gate or augment it weeks before the Russians invaded?
What the Met Police can’t do their job in London because they are policing in Ukraine?
If 20 people have been now fined, did any of them lie about it previously but are not being charged with perverting the course of justice?
Did any of them Lie when asked if they seen Boris there and who else?
This happened in Johnsons home, his office under his premiership and in the million to none chance he didn’t know it was a party then he has lost control of everything and must go.
With the Covid Crisis Boris found time to meet designers and appeal for £200,000 in donations to decorate his flat.
Did anyone see Boris enter the service to Prince Philip?
The guy doesn’t even know what size he takes in a suit or own a comb.
That’s why the liar is a tramp!
Unrelated, of course,
But Now Scotland are holding a demo at the new UK Government hub in Edinburgh in a few weeks time.
This could be more useful than all the sadly diminished marches.
I suppose it all depends how radical the day becomes.
The methods that were going to take us to Independence up until a couple of years ago, aren’t going to work anymore.
Republicofscotland says:
29 March, 2022 at 8:02 pm
“…I worked closely with a number of big quangos and their Boards and they were never short of a quip about how it was best not to get above ourselves.”
The cringe is strong in Scots.
If Scotland was an Independent Nation, and had been these past 315 years, we would not be calling the feckless betrayal of Scotland’s rights, commerce, property and resource a “cringe”.
Back in the day when I was trying to persuade Scottish Borders Council to pretend it had a modicum of integrity, (and failing dismally), I had an uncomfortable realisation enter my head.
I grew up watching the TV Series “Secret Army”. That was the series about the Comet Line smuggling shot down UK Airmen out of Belgium. (It was also the series which spawned the spoof Allo Allo, but there weren’t many giggles in the original series).
The series was rife with collaborators and informers, and an underclass of black market opportunists who would sell out their own mothers if there was something in it for them.
Those people who right now, today, will turn a blind eye to the endemic corruption and nepotism which robs and disadvantages their own people, are the same brand of people who would sink to any depth just to ingratiate themselves with the invader. – The ones who’d just shrug their shoulders, file the paperwork, and say “they had it coming”, when some patriot was stood against a wall and shot.
Perhaps the greatest indignity suffered upon Scotland is not having our Nation’s prosperity plundered these past 3 centuries, but that Scotland’s collaborators, spivs, and House Jocks who profit from Scotland’s exploitation, walk tall amongst us the length of breadth of Scotland with neither any sense of shame, nor indeed fear for their lives.
Scotland has normalised subjugation and learned to live with it, and I find that false baseline utterly detestable.
Scotland, bar a few exceptions, has forgotten how to be a Nation.
So NS was at prince philips memorial..
Seen standing behind sunak & BJ,
With no mask on, ie not wearing a mask in a enclosed space. Standing shoulder to shoulder.
But in Scotland she recommends we still wear masks.
She is certainly power crazy over the people whom live in Scotland.
Are trans gender men born in the 50’s going under the same problems with pensions as biological women.
Or do they receive a mans pension?
Breeks,
It is very sad to watch scottish men and women willing to be subjugated.
Perhaps the only thing that breaks the heart more is that they do not even recognise the irony of colonial attitudes to scottish people from the government of GB is still alive and kicking in 2022.
For one half of the 1707 treaty of the union to say to the other half .
We own you Scotland and the treaty of the union.
This is why we keep telling to beg for a section 30, that we say no too.
GB is only made up of good ole England.
It came about by magic you know.
I have to wonder why no political party in Scotland never ever mentions that the Scots hold as much right in decision making choice to leave or stay in the 1707 treaty as England does.
It is a sorry state of a subjugated Scottish mind. That they think England alone owns the treaty of the union, rather than only half of it.
The great british parliament can only legally own one half of the treaty of the union.
The twisted mindset of the englands run government to presume it made a treaty with its self alone in 1707.
The twisted mind of the great british government does not realise it is only holding the documents and that Scotland also holds the documentation.
A shuggly peg for the unionist party.
Scotland and its people could thrive when we are no longer in a state of submission mentally.
When sturgeon , snp and greens are no longer in office.
When they are no longer selling their minds an bodies to introduce globalist ideology for funding.
Last comment for today.
The 1707 treaty of the union articles state that scotland shall pay land tax.
No exemptions apparently.
good one, Breeks.
The tr34cherous, sell-out, nature of Scotland’s “elite” is obvious to anyone who has even flicked open a history book for 5 seconds. You are better off listing the patriots, the fingers of one hand probably sufficient.
For most of these guys “the guy in the next glen” was always “the problem” and they could never think bigger than this.
The ancient celtic tribes disliked the idea of centralised control; they would however -elect- a “high king” at times, usually as a war leader, a temporary measure; you pick the best general to see off the romans, northumbrians, whoever. But when you find yourself in near constant war, the post becomes permanent, and everyone wants the top slot.
I think the Campbells of Argyll were the only clan who were ever consistently loyal, and stuck with one side – England.
In a way, Scots are the “anti-Jews”; jews have extreme in-group/out-group dynamics, they even have a word – “goyim” – for the non-jews (all of us, together). It is an insult also, on the level of “n1gger”. Jews might stab each other in the back (then go see the rabbi for a decision) but they would never sell out another jew to a “goy”. They can thus stay tight and pursue a collective interest – like a 3000 year old property claim between mythical people and imaginary beings, which was never written down (or was, but was lost – Indiana Jones knows where it is); they have a country, we don’t – you work it out. We are “squatters” in our own land, tugging the forelock to the kind of people who read Scottish Field and say things like – MY HOUSE LOOKS GOOD DOESNT IT – with vowels, strangulated.
– a wee story : the abattoirs have a new inspector, first day on the job he does a visit. The manager asks him how things are : it all seems in order … but … tell me, HOW DO YOU PUT UP WITH THE SMELL?
the plant manager replies : … WHAT SMELL … ?
you have to move away from Scotland and come back to see how much our society “stinks”. For when you become used to things as they are, you stop asking questions like – why are we all crammed into a narrow strip of land, when the Highlands are empty; and why are the Highlands full of posh English people; and why, sitting on an ocean of oil and massive windpower – are our energy prices so high? Why are the roads so bad? Why can’t we build a fucking ferry? Why are all these military installations all over the place – and who is checking what they are up to? Why do we put up with bigoted idiots blocking the streets hundreds of times a year? … and etc etc …
@ Breeks at 08.21: “Scotland, with a few exceptions, has forgotten how to be a Nation”.
There’s about 1.9 million Yes voters who haven’t forgotten! Plus all those who regretted voting No. There’s enough of us burning to regain Scotland’s independence and only 1 person stopping it.
Surely there must be one other person who can go to her and tell her that she has to leave because she is the block on our freedom? Obviously it has to be one of her pals because she wouldn’t see anybody else.
I dunno who wrote this, but I think ALBA should sign him up …
We, the last men on earth, the last of the free, have been shielded till today by the very remoteness and seclusion for which we are famed. We have enjoyed the impressiveness of the unknown. But today our boundary is exposed; beyond us lies no nation, nothing but waves and rocks and the English. Brigands of the world, they have exhausted the land by their indiscriminate plunder, and now they ransack the sea. They are unique in being as violently tempted to attack the poor as the wealth. Robbery, butcher, rapine, the liars call Empire; they create a desolation and call it peace.
@Meindevon. Most trans identifying men (trans women) retain their penis. Less than 1% have any sort of surgery. So, that TW will probably have kept his Penis and anyone who has a penis, has the potential to be a rapist.
sarah says:
30 March, 2022 at 12:16 pm
@ Breeks at 08.21: “Scotland, with a few exceptions, has forgotten how to be a Nation”.
There’s about 1.9 million Yes voters who haven’t forgotten! Plus all those who regretted voting No. There’s enough of us burning to regain Scotland’s independence and only 1 person stopping it.
Surely there must be one other person who can go to her and tell her that she has to leave because she is the block on our freedom? Obviously it has to be one of her pals because she wouldn’t see anybody else.
It’s not the desire to be a Nation Sara, it’s the “how” to be a Nation I meant to emphasise. That we allow one person like Sturgeon to dictate Scotland’s subjugation is a measure of Scotland’s timid and subordinate mindset.
We have a written Constitution which specifically caters for dud “leadership” which abandons Scotland to English rule, but yet we have tolerated this charlatan for seven years, and a sham Parliament codified by colonial Westminster legislation for 24 years, and of course, a 315 year Union which has never been Constitutionally sound in the first place.
Breeks.
I could not resist commenting.
It may be of help for myself and others to explain how we came to have a constitution in Scotland, while England claims it has no written constitution in great britian,
Even i am a bit confused over this.
@ Breeks at 13.05: “HOW” to get to be a Nation. Right, get you! 🙂
Of course no-one has been saying it is possible to apply the principle of the Declaration of Arbroath. Education and MSM and Westminster politicians, and now the SNP, are telling us that Scotland is subject to Westminster rules [and rule]. So no wonder that the mass of Scots think we must be helpless.
However some people in the current SNP leadership and parliamentary groups must surely know different? Perhaps they don’t. Ian Blackford said to me that a referendum run by Scotland wouldn’t be legal – the Lord Advocate [or was it Advocate General] had said so.
Well, as Mandy Rice-Davies memorably said, “He would say that, wouldn’t he?” being a Unionist.
Margo Macdonald wouldn’t have let that stop her.
Confused says:
30 March, 2022 at 12:26 pm
” I dunno who wrote this, but I think ALBA should sign him up … ”
That quote is attributed to Scottish chieftain Calgacus before the battle of Mons Gropius , though I’ve previously seen it attributed to others , including Roman writers . Fuck ’em . We’re claiming it for oor man the Calgster .
Good posts as per Mr C . Likewise Jimmy C n the man they call Breeks Wha Hae
‘kin enraging that we have so many excellent thinkers/commenters on our side n such a bunch of useless c***s in positions of power . How dat ‘appen ?
Symptomatic of our tendency to let others talk/think/act for us when we should be doing those things ourselves .
Not that I’m any better in that respect
Sarah.
Scotland should just do it.
Let them deal with it in the courts afterwards,
After all the the great british parliament was only created due to Scotland and England both signing the 1707 treaty.
And the GB parliament cannot claim it inherited both sides of that double treaty.
Without acknowledgement that it can only act as holding the 1707 treaty for both countries.
The GB parliament nor England could ever claim it signed a 1707 treaty with itself.
Why should we wait for permission or be subjugated and thwarted from acting our half of the treaty of the union ownership.
It beggers belief that the Scottish nation does not recognise its importance or that it is the other official half and holder of that said treaty..
As Great Britian goes to the dogs, and the corruption feeds the well off with billionaires in their parliament.
one half of it should be bold enough to say its not working. And the GB parliament has broken many of the articles in that treaty.
One thing for sure NS nor the greens would survive us claiming our right to choose a new government when we want to.
And like i said many times before.
While Scotland and its people as a nation have the right to choose a new government, it does not stipulate it has to be attached in any way to the Rest of the UK,
@Breeks – 30 March, 2022 at 8:21 am
“The ones who’d just shrug their shoulders, file the paperwork, and say “they had it coming”, when some patriot was stood against a wall and shot.”
Aye, weel, Breeks, there have been plenty of “they had it coming” posts on here these past 5 weeks and damn few posters calling out the culprits. So make of that what you will.
“Scotland, bar a few exceptions, has forgotten how to be a Nation.”
Yup. And a few here are so warped about that, that they can’t stand to see other nations unashamedly fighting for their freedom and their independence. Indeed, so warped are these posters, that they call for those other nations to be destroyed. So make of that what you will.
Tell you what though, Breeks. Shoot the messenger. Then you’ll feel better for a wee while.
Sarah.
Scotland should just do it.
Let them deal with it in the courts afterwards,
After all the the great british parliament was only created due to Scotland and England both signing the 1707 treaty.
And the GB parliament cannot claim it inherited both sides of that double treaty.
Without acknowledgement that it can only act as holding the 1707 treaty for both countries.
The GB parliament nor England could ever claim it signed a 1707 treaty with itself.
Why should we wait for permission or be subjugated and thwarted from acting our half of the treaty of the union ownership.
It beggers belief that the Scottish nation does not recognise its importance or that it is the other official half and holder of that said treaty..
As Great Britian goes to the dogs, and the corruption feeds the well off with billionaires in their parliament.
one half of it should be bold enough to say its not working. And the GB parliament has broken many of the articles in that treaty.
One thing for sure NS nor the greens would survive us claiming our right to choose a new government when we want to.
And like i said many times before.
While Scotland and its people as a nation have the right to choose a new government, it does not stipulate it has to be attached in any way to the Rest of the UK,
This is over looked by many of us in the independence and yes for Scotland movement.
Sometimes what is within legal remit is as much what is omitted as what is stated.
It is no wonder that unionists wish to re-write the 1707 treaty of the union,
But just by altering the treaty, breaks the treaty.
Without Tucker Carlson
https://eu.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2022/03/23/sen-blackburn-asks-supreme-court-nominee-define-woman/7144202001/
No wonder so many women Democrat voters feel they have no political home.
This is a reply I receved from the Scottish Government. The ‘Consultation’ they refer to was a fairly uneven representation of views, weighted towards those advocating the GRA. Their responses can be summed up as ‘We want this and we want it now.’ Those opposing the GRA such as SNP Branches gave detailed criticism of the GRA but their opinions have been ignored.
I am particularly disturbed by the sentence ‘Existing criminal offences apply to any person who assaults another person, harasses another person, or threatens another person anywhere – including in a toilet or changing room, and that will not change.’ I take that to mean that if I protest at the presence of a transwoman in a women only area I could be arrested and accused of Hate Crime.
DIRECTORATE FOR JUSTICE
DJUST : Civil Law and Legal System
Our Reference: 202100268217
6 January 2022
Dear ———– ,
Thank you for your email of 21 December about the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. I am
replying on behalf of Scottish Ministers.
The Bill is intended to make the process of obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate quicker and less traumatic for trans people. The Bill proposes no changes to the protections under the Equality Act 2010, and all organisations will still need to take account the Equality Act when any changes in policy are being considered.
We have now consulted twice on the Bill – first on the principles of reform and then on a draft Bill and
impact assessments. These have been two of the largest consultations ever undertaken by the Scottish
Government.
The Scottish Government has published the detailed analysis report of the consultation, produced by independent researchers. We have also published responses from groups and organisations where permission to publish was granted. You can find these here: Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill consultation – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
The consultation analysis gives us a valuable and comprehensive summary of the range of views. We will continue to listen to and engage with interested parties in preparing the Bill for introduction.
The Scottish Government is clear that all rights – those of women and trans people – must be protected. This includes the protection of women’s safe spaces. Existing criminal offences apply to any person who assaults another person, harasses another person, or threatens another person anywhere –
including in a toilet or changing room, and that will not change. We are not proposing any changes to
public policy.
Women’s equality is at the heart of the Scottish Government’s vision for a fairer Scotland, where women and girls have equal rights and opportunities, are empowered to exercise those rights, have equitable access to economic resources and decision-making, and live their lives free from all forms of violence, abuse and harassment.
I hope this is helpful.
Yours sincerely
Gender Recognition Unit
CLLS : Gender RecognitionSt Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG
http://www.gov.scot
Out local SNP councillor has decided to stand as an Independent because he knows GRA bill is a vote loser. Woman Won’t Wheest.
@ Elizabeth Hagan: “local SNP standing as independent as GRA a vote loser.”
Is this councillor doing so because they disagree with SNP or just to keep their seat?
And please tell me they are in Highland ward 5 because my ward has no Alba candidates – there’s only 4 Alba candidates amongst 27 wards.
I know Breeks you set great faith in Joanna Cherry and her holding bozo the clown and prorogation of WM to account , what I find inconceivable and extremely disturbing is in light of Sara Salyers and others exposures of the TOU aligned with the exposures and encouragement of the SSRG there has been NOTHING , NIL ,NADA coming from ANY of the people supposedly representing and ENSURING the safety of our people , and I INCLUDE ALBA in that
Where is the FIRE and PASSION these people should have for our country and people, WHERE is the FIGHT to regain our freedom from a parasitical neighbour , WHERE is the evidence
and exposures to PROVE to undecided and no voters that Scotland can survive and succeed without their lying grasping corrupt neighbour
ALL we have gained for the last 300+ years is a group who have learned and put into practice how to lie , cheat , obfuscate , deny liability , and ignore any demand for integrity or honesty
Sturgeon and the snp troughers have watched liebours decades long lies and corruption in government with no comeback and have decided to emulate them because they KNOW most Scots are subjugated and stupid , and judging from some of the reports coming back from the ALBA conference ALBA are looking at emulating the snp and liebour
@ twathater
Indeed…
I recall this yin hud a trilogy o articles published Ra Notional on wer sovereignty prior tae being elected.
Ach, he probably took a call from some hi heid yin in waitin and was cowed to toe the Party doctrine…
https://archive.ph/BlR25
Aff topic…
Ya ken it’s shite being Scottish when you jist fit a brand new battery to yer motorbike for ra summer…. and it starts bastardin snowing! 🙁
Hey Ronnie, I may see you in Arbroath if I don’t get hypothermia on the way there. Will offer to help put the Wings tent up if it’s going to be there, as long as ye dinnae gie me a rake o fucks fer doing it wrang!
I spent several of my younger years doing montage putting up hunners o tents across Europe but clearly I learnt nowt from those days. Well I did learn what a woman was for aw that so that’s got to be worth something these days! 🙂
Twathater @ 5.54
Wiz that both barrels or ye still goat a cartridge in reserve fur when yr REALLY beelin ?
Braw post T
The Ukraine and Scotland are both fucked by capitalist Greed. Nothing changes.
The betrayer of Scots Sturgeon dangles the carrot ever closer as May’s council elections are only weeks away.
For Scotland specifically I think the biggest threat is we don’t take the opportunity to put ourselves in charge of our own destiny and fully equip ourselves to make the most of all these massive advantages we have got.
“If we allow ourselves to stay governed by, constrained by, have our ambitions and our aspirations limited by Westminster, we will not fulfil the massive potential we have got. We will go some of the way to do that, but we will stop short.
“So I think the biggest threat to Scotland over the next few years is not becoming independent – and conversely the biggest opportunity for us is becoming independent.”
Vote Alba come May, and remove some of the troughing SNP councillors who don’t give a monkey’s about independence.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20031957.nicola-sturgeon-says-scotland-must-seize-opportunity-become-independent%2F
Alex Salmond told by Aberdeen council to remove a sign from his property that says yes and has our national flag the Saltire on it, this reminds of the gatekeepers squealing blue murder when our national flag was on the front of our fire engines.
Some Scots hate Scotland so much (but not the money they make from it) that they even loathe their own national flag.
If any country was ripe for a revolution its Scotland, but that won’t happen, because most Scots have been brainwashed to be politically correct via Sturgeon/SNP and the COPFS.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20031796.alex-salmond-ordered-remove-yes-sign-property-planning-row%2F
https://www.thenational.scot/news/20031796.alex-salmond-ordered-remove-yes-sign-property-planning-row/
Poor Alex. I wonder what they’d do if he painted a saltire and Yes on his house?
The idea that one signatory to a bilateral treaty cannot withdraw from that treaty without the permission of the other is quite clearly a non sequitur but that is the lie that the British have been peddling for over three hundred years. We are free to leave the Treaty of Union at any time; we only have to assert our willingness to do so. Obviously not, however, under the leadership of someone as supine and craven as Sturgeon!
@ Dan & Robert Hughes , yes Dan, Jim Fairlie fair giving it the sovereignty push in that article, what we in the snp have to do etc etc but once the arse sorry nose is firmly placed in the trough with the rest of the parasites and perverts they are suddenly struck dumb and cannot be heard over the heid pervert
@ Robert Hughes , i’m 72 next birthday Robert and haven’t time to piss about with niceties and diplomacy , I don’t like liars and fakers which Scotland has in abundance and as soon as the revolution starts I’ll be at the head of the mob
BTW Dan have you got a workaround for twatter yet i’m sick o that wee pop up just when it gets interesting
I just received a WhatsApp video where a newspaper heading claims Tory Shill and Gold Digger extraordinaire Michelle Moan has made a £76 million profit from the PPE contract
awarded without tender to her 2 week old company with no PPE knowledge or experience.
To aggravate that further it seems she basically called a manufacturer in China to produce and deliver. A very lucrative call and only the tip of the iceberg.
Regrettably the entire order was substandard and unusable but she keeps the cash that the next 3 generations will be paying for with interest.
Let’s all freeze in our homes and go without meals and help the Tory Party, Michelle and her latest billionaire partner to live in sumptuous luxury!
@twathater re pop up
Press sign in and a delete x comes on next one
Wonder if Alex Salmond has a shed like a certain Mr Ronnie Anderson???
Alex Christoforou from The Duran does regular commentaries on the current crisis in Ukraine. This one https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/germany-cancels-'z‘.-macron-tells-putin:e talks about a statement from the Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council that the sanctions by the west are actively undermining the US Dollar and the Euro and the world is moving to a system of regional currencies backed by commodities.
Aside from the self-serving nature of this statement given the source, it’s an intriguing idea. I’d imagine a Scottish currency, backed by oil and renewables – all things in much greater abundance here than in the rest of Europe, could even be stronger than the English Pound despite having a much smaller economy.
Events, my dear boy, events.
May I recommend Yours for Scotland and the pieces about the ferries – incredibly foolish Scottish government decision and they are now desperately trying to shift blame.
I wonder at the lack of information in the common press – who are they trying to protect ? Certainly not the tax payer or taxpayers money.
I do know that there is a piece in the National but it should be front paged by the so called Scottish media.
I would not have known of the existence of an extraordinary Scot who has provided most parts of the world with excellent ferries but for bloggers and blog owners who allow others to inform.
We owe our bloggers gratitude in abundance , otherwise we would live in ignorance – hope Craig ‘s judge reads that.
SNP MSP Gordon MacDonald wants all empty military house in Scotland to be given to Ukrainians.
Meanwhile.
In 2019/20, local authorities received a total of 36,855 homelessness applications. Over this same time period, 37,336 applications were assessed with 31,333 (84%) found to be homeless or threatened with homelessness. Of these 31,333, 30,146 (96%) were assessed as unintentionally homeless, with the remaining 1,187 assessed as intentionally homeless. (Tables 1 & 7)
As at 31st March 2020, there were a total of 11,665 households in temporary accommodation, 3,570 of which contained a pregnant woman or children. (Tables 29 & 30)
https://www.gov.scot/publications/homelessness-scotland-2019-2020/pages/4/#:~:text=The%20Extent%20of%20Homelessness%20in%20Scotland%20Key%20Points,51%2C365%20people%2C%20including%2035%2C654%20adults%20and%2015%2C711%20children.
Vote for Alba in May, the SNP doesn’t give a toss about Scots.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20033099.empty-military-houses-used-home-ukrainian-refugees-says-gordon-macdonald%2F
Stuart MacKay.
Scotland would thrive without a doubt,
Good common sense seems to be stranger than fiction when it comes to world leaders, and Claus Swab and the WEF running our governments for the great reset,
A meeting place on how to ensure the divide between rich and poor broadens,
Where the outlook ensures leaders buy, invest, and own everything.
And countries and people will not even own their back garden, not water, air or heating energy.
I do not remember electing these billion and trillionaires in to run our Scottish government.
Making decisions to run the Scottish economy,
To close down oil and petrol supplies and increasing prices at pumps.
Rewilding Scotland with predators without asking us, the people in our country.
Pulling the strings of NS while paying the snp to follow new global trans gender issues.
And preventing any country that shows itself to be self sufficient with resources staying independent or self determining their independence.
Scotland bought and payed for a second time in history by foreign money.
Hi cynicalHighlander.
RE: twitter popups. Thanks for that info.
https://archive.ph/ftPw2
Emily Bridges: Transgender cyclist will not race in women’s National Omnium event
Jeremy Vine will discuss this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_two
@ Dorothy Devine and Ronnie Anderson: Ronnie is going to Arbroath on Saturday – he could have a word with Alex on the subject of Men’s Sheds and how to paint them!!
@DD re ferries: I too have been educated about so many things by reading our bloggers. If only the SNP and our parliamentarians were willing to learn from them too.
I am surprised that Kate Forbes took no action on Dr Ballantyne’s ferry letter – she isn’t dim and I thought has some decent principles. Perhaps her civil servants sat on the letter? After all the civil service is English/UK – not Scottish – so their approach isn’t pro-Scotland. B******s.
https://archive.ph/e1FeX
Female cycling stars ‘threatened to BOYCOTT’ national championships if trans rider Emily Bridges was allowed to compete as international governing body bans her from racing and calls ‘expert panel’ to ratify decision
Good decision on the part of cycling stars.
@ Ruby at 12.02: “Trans cyclist will NOT cycle in women’s Omnium event”. That is good news.
The second piece of good news is that Ness Primary will now have boys and girls toilets after all – Highland Council has listened to parents and changed the design.
But we shouldn’t have to be fighting these issues. What a waste of our time and energy when there are other things we need to be fighting for.
India Willoughby
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/india-willoughby?s=r
One way to sort out who owns Scotland is to follow the article of the treaty of the union,
Article 9.
Scotland shall pay Land Tax.
Or maybe the Treaty of the union has been altered to now being obsolete, and beyond recognised.
“I am living for the day when someone in the Scottish media finds some courage from somewhere and asks Nicola Sturgeon,”
Mega LOL!
My decision has been made, i’m spoiling my ballot paper come May. I said some time ago the SNP under Sturgeon will **NEVER** get another vote from me and all the Unionist parties, who i’d **NEVER** vote for anyway, support what the SNP/Greens are doing.
My only problem is deciding what message i want to spoil it with. Perhaps a mass movement to get others to do likewise might send Sturgeon’s Nasty Party a serious message. The message the length and breadth of Scotland would have to be the same though to get through. But then again it’s debatable whether they have the combined intelligence to spot such a warning.
I watched a good documentary on Netflix last night. The story itself was a bit of a heartbreaker but i couldn’t get Sturgeon out of my head. It was called: 137 SHOTS and was about the corruption in a Cleveland police department where 13 of its officers, and one in particular, killed 2 innocent & unarmed black people after they were chased through the streets by 62, YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT *62*, police cars.
One of the officers even jumped up onto the bonnet of the victims’ vehicle and emptied a further 49 shots into the vehicle via the windscreen, just to make sure the extremely dangerous criminals (sarcasm btw) where dead. After-all, the previous 88 shots might not have been sufficient (more sarcasm btw).
The whole system came together to protect those officers, even to the point of their court case being rigged to be heard by a Judge and not a jury (sound familiar, folks?). After the “Not Guilty” verdict to a pathetic watered-down charge the victims’ family worked to bring Grand Jury measures against those responsible.
The “prosecutor” in the original trial, for the first time in American legal history, allowed 2 of the officers to come to the usually secretive Grand Jury hearing, state their cases, and then without being questioned etc invoked their 5th Amendment Rights then walked away. The long & short of it was all those cops got away with what i believe was murder and only one lost his job, 3-years later.
If Sturgeon gets her way that’s exactly what Scotland shall become whilst STILL strangled under London rule. That useless self-serving turncoat that she is is not interested in independence. Her every action since being dumped on us is hardcore evidence of that.
I don’t know how or when she was turned, if she ever truly did want indy, but i’m 100% convinced it’s no accident she’s prioritised seriously divisive issues over our right to self-determination. Excuse after excuse for putting indy on hold but behind the scenes work continued and gathered pace on her priority gender issues.
“My decision has been made, i’m spoiling my ballot paper come May”
Maybe you being a bit hasty there, why not ask Helen Dale who to vote for, Dale not being her real name.
The trans gender issue is not a Scottish issue, it isthe tail spin ofof the globlest ideology.
It was in Canada, Australia, Germany etc, a year or so before it arrived in Scotland.
We can only wonder why NS snp took up the global agenda without checking where the funding is inserted into the Scottish Governments coffers.
Boycotting Schools, sports events, councillors whom bring this in to our society at the polling stations in the next elections,
We need to protect our children and women.
Republicofscotland says: Maybe you being a bit hasty there, why not ask Helen Dale who to vote for, Dale not being her real name.
And maybe you should stick to your Neo-Nazi crap and read my post. My decision was made a long time ago. Fuckin clown! Don’t start your Ellis/Main shit with me.
__________
BTW, folks, i meant to add, there’s been advice going around for some time regarding tomorrows change of domestic energy rates etc. And that is folk should take readings from and pictures of their domestic energy meters before midnight tonight. This should ensure the power companies do not try and charge all your used units at the new rip-off rates which start tomorrow.
On the surface here it looks like commit and crime you like while you are 16 or 17 years old
and you won’t go to prison but will collect £200 per annum.
Have SNP copied something from the game of Monopoly?
Well worth trying to rob a bank.
You get the big nasty robber’s money or £200 if you get caught.
Perhaps this could be extended pensioners struggling to hear and eat?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60934546
Stoker @2.38pm.
Ha, ha brilliant, love it, its obvious you don’t do sarcasm, oh well.
Dorothy Devine says:
31 March, 2022 at 10:26 am
May I recommend Yours for Scotland and the pieces about the ferries – incredibly foolish Scottish government decision and they are now desperately trying to shift blame.
Unbelievable isn’t it?
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/here-is-the-proof-that-the-government-were-warned-in-advance-about-the-impending-ferry-fiasco/
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James Che. says:
30 March, 2022 at 1:27 pm
Breeks.
I could not resist commenting.
It may be of help for myself and others to explain how we came to have a constitution in Scotland, while England claims it has no written constitution in great britian,
Even i am a bit confused over this.
That’s a bit tricky to explain. I’ve started a couple of answers, but go veering off on a tangent. It’s not tricky subject matter, just tricky putting it into words succinctly.
I’ll have another go after work, but in the meantime, I think Christine Graham explained it very well back in 2014…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ychGT4dslrU&feature=emb_logo
Effigy.
Haven’t you heard, they are trying to get rid of the old folk.
They have reasonably active memories that relate to the way things used to be,
They also are less susceptible to being brain washed in politics and wokeness because they have come through a lifetime of experiences.
Most here that speak sense are of that generation, with a few exceptions here an there,
They have taken all the wage paid contributions from us in pensions over the years and decades that were mis- spent by governments leaving the pension pots empty,
The government solution is to get rid of pensioners,
Make people until the end of their lifetime, or get rid of them.
Rather than be held accountable, come down hard on a soft target.
No help coming from there I’am afraid.
Should read…. Make people work until the end of their lifetime,
According to the Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson there’s fifteen people working on the white paper for independence, and if you believe that one I have a bridge I want to sell you.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20035764.scottish-independence-government-boosts-number-staff-working-white-paper%2F
The oldboys club in action here as Tory Lord Michael Grade, who admits to having zero experience in social media, is likely to become the head of OFCOM.
Grade has done the rounds in the UK’s bias media.
“During his career, Lord Grade has served as controller of BBC One, chief executive of Channel 4, chairman of the BBC and executive chairman of ITV.”
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20035730.new-ofcom-chairman-lord-michael-grade-admits-doesnt-use-social-media%2F
Sarah , maybe Ronnie could take a couple of wee test pots for him – I always loved Ronnie’s shed.
Breeks , it is more than unbelievable , it is utter stupidity.
One might foolishly think that an answer to the island problems being freely and generously offered would at the very least be acknowledged and investigated but our shower are incapable of exploring possibilities in any depth and of course dissenting voices are ‘invalid’.
Breeks,
I just listened to Christine Graham on you tube as you suggested, it is amazing how much this parallels my own views on sovereignty of the Scottish people,
We do not need the permission or parliament to go ahead with independence.
Although I could see many Scots not understanding the mechanics of freedom at their fingertips,
in fact i could envisage many being feart to go for it. They are so used to being told to stay in their thinking box all these years.
They have become so accustomed to the false security of GB that to stand and think individually and independently for Scots and a possible better future than the obvious corrupted opposition that is progress across britian.
Means some would prefer to sink, than make an attempt at swimming for a safety net.
Sorry to be so cynical, but the way we play ball to both governments saying NO since 2014 speaks for that opinion rather than against.
Breeks.
Thanks for the link to Christine Graham on you tube, much appreciated.
Hopefully I will be at the Alba stall to put a few questions forward this weekend on this subject.
Cynical highlander thanks for that workaround , I enjoy looking at the posts but I would end up jailed or banned if I joined , especially with the perverts charter so beloved by sturgeon’s taliban morons being supported by twatter
“the care system should have love and nurture at its heart”
Of course, that’s a quote from the BBC, so it may just be a tissue of lies.
But suppose it’s true. Maybes the idea will spread.
I can’t wait for the DWP and the Inland Revenue to start loving and nurturing.
Acht this ferry fiasco.
Yi ken wit wee Chris de Burgh said- “Don’t pay the ferryman UNTIL he gets you to the other side.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXX9iW7_Kdg
These rusting hulls haven’t moved in 8 fecking years from a shipyard says it all. They’ll go nowhere. Hopefully it will be her downfall( if sumit else doesn’t get her first) and all those other nodding dogs that sit behind her at Scot Parliament will hopefully be gone tae.
@Breeks 4:28pm
Dr Ballantyne’s letter to the Scottish government answers a lot of questions and raises a few more including –
Why are Nicola (the buck stops with me) Sturgeon and Kate Forbes still in their posts?
@ Ron Maclean: ” Nicola [the buck stops with me] Sturgeon…”
Nicola [the BUCKS stop with me]… – fixed it for you! 🙂
Turning to the Council elections – Ballot Box Scotland reports that the SNP totals of candidates and wards contested is the lowest since 2007. Is that why Nicola was ringing round friends and family to get them to stand?
Unfortunately the Conservatives, LibDems and Greens are standing more than previously. But 111 Alba, 12 ISP and 8 SSP are standing so there is someone decent to vote for number 1 in 130 wards.
James Che. says:
31 March, 2022 at 5:26 pm
…..Although I could see many Scots not understanding the mechanics of freedom at their
in fact i could envisage many being feart to go for it. They are so used to being told to stay in their thinking box all these years.
I’m not sure Scotland’s people are feart. I firmly believe we are indoctrinated, and possibly even institutionalised by pernicious Anglicisation and harmonisation with the UK.
If it was fear suppressing them, people would be changed with reassurance, but in my experience it isn’t reassurance people seek. Quite the reverse. Once you explain Scotland’s Constitutional rights and idiosyncrasies, you see the cogs beginning to turn, and people quickly begin to positively glow with hope and optimism. You’ve shown them there’s credible path out of the darkness.
The problem with Scotland’s Constitution and sovereignty of the people is that far too few of us know about it, and fewer still understand what it means. (And I am sure that is no accident). When it comes to Scotland’s Constitutional Sovereignty, there are very few of us on the same page, especially amongst our politicians.
The British Establishment knows this better than we do. That is why the narrative around the 2014 Referendum was so contrived. The last thing the UK media wanted to broadcast was an enlightening debate and illuminating summation of Scotland’s Constitutional rights and historic traditions. Far from helping the Scottish people to make an informed choice, the British Media and it’s monopoly on broadcasting made sure the Scottish people went to the polls in 2014 profoundly ill informed about the choice they were making.
We can already see this process in action again. For all the positivity and detailed research of Sara Salyers Claim of Right Articles, just wait, and you will see not a single word of it resonating anywhere across the wider “Scottish” media. They will starve it of publicity.
Some people describe that as propaganda by omission, and it’s a big contributing factor to the massive amount of inertia which needs to be overcome to spur Scotland’s people into action.
The BBC in particular is Scotland’s daily anaesthesia, administering it’s indoctrinations and manipulating our collective awareness to the point we’re all walking around in a permanent state of borderline stupor.
@Sarah
Thank you for sorting things out.
There’s a number of SNP cooncil candidates for CNES. Only one Alba.
I’m surprised how little attention, apart from the hulks on the Clyde, the ferry fiasco is attracting. It’s a long term problem which hasn’t had the attention it deserves for a long time. So far only Dr Ballantyne is offering a practical solution. I’m sure the reason his letter didn’t get a reply is because there’s no-one in the Scottish government competent enough to assess and evaluate his proposals or negotiate terms with him. That situation seems likely to apply to the opposition parties as well.
If left uncorrected things can only get worse.
@Robbo 6:54pm
Re the Ferries. Scrapping the Ferries would appear to be the best option for me. We have lost a puckle load of money already. It’s a sunk cost in financial terms. I note Alf Baird was quoted in a local Sunday Paper saying the same. I am an acquaintance of an engineer who worked at Cammell Laird most of his working life. He tells me the Glen Sannox won’t get a seaworthy certificate. What are we doing here?. If it is 300 million to save 300 jobs. That’s a million a job. Stop and reconsider!. Especially when it comes to the safety of island travellers. I don’t want the SNP selling the family silver for a vanity project. I have been on plenty of multi million engineering projects that have gone wrong. But this is the Cecil De Mille epic of them all.
https://archive.ph/EV4cR
“That sentiment was echoed by another runner Ellie Baker, who said that she would even boycott a race involving a transgender woman. Her stance was endorsed on Wednesday night by Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell. “Well said Ellie – us females past and present should stand together,” said Gunnell.”
Those commenting on this Telegraph article don’t seem be going along with the ‘transwomen are women’ dictate or the pronouns insanity.
Encouraging to see top athletes considering boycotting events involving transwomen.
It would be good if audiences aslo boycotted the events.
If you are unhappy with the self-id & transwomen are women dictate then boycotting all politicians who support this might help stop the madness. That means not a single vote for any SNP politician.
‘If you don’t respect my sex you don’t get my X’
‘If you don’t respect my sex you don’t get my X’
it is a most excellent slogan but can be commandeered by others for nefarious purposes.
Tannadice Boy says:
31 March, 2022 at 9:10 pm
@Robbo 6:54pm
Re the Ferries. Scrapping the Ferries would appear to be the best option for me.
—–
Aye, maybe so. I know little aboot building ferries. Much the same as these clowns in Holyrood .
Imagine if these two ferries ever do get finished the confidence of paying customers will be vastly diminished I would expect.
Sad days indeed for when Scotland was the envy of the world and built some of the best ships in the world. Now we have a pokey wee couple of boat yards that can’t build two ferries because of corruption. No other word for it.
This fanny of a consultant was getting paid near £3000 a DAY ???
MINISTERS are under fire over how they recruited £2,783-a-day Scots ferry fiasco fixer Tim Hair – after it was revealed he was recruited over the phone.
It has further emerged that Gloucestershire-based Mr Hair, who was brought in in the summer of 2019 to fix the issues at Scottish Government-owned Ferguson Marine, the owners of the last civilian Clyde shipyard was chief executive of a financially troubled polymer products firm for 11 months before it went bust in 2019 ten months after he left. It owed £27.4m, including over £80,000 to his management firm.
WHO recruited this man?
I’m no fan of BLiS, but Sarwar nailed it here.
“He said: “Mr Hair was selected from a shortlist of only three people, all recommended by corporate advisers PricewaterhouseCoopers.
“In the process of negotiating his salary, he started by offering a rate of £2,000 a day, but ended up being paid just under £3,000 and expenses per day.
“And that the First Minister was informed about all of this, and didn’t raise a single objection.”
He said Mr Hair ended up earning £2m. The turnaround director left his role at the end of 2021 and a new chief executive is in place.
Mr Sarwar added: “As people across Scotland tighten their belts, can the First Minister explain why she thought it was right to pay Tim Hair over £2m, meaning he earned in just 11 days what the average Scot earns in a year?”
Ms Sturgeon said decisions were taken in line with “proper processes”, adding: “I don’t set the market rates for what people are paid.””
“To laughter in the chamber, Mr Sarwar shot back: “Market rate? £3,000 a day? Were you signing Lionel Messi?”
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Breeks @ 8:38 pm
“I firmly believe we are indoctrinated, and possibly even institutionalised by pernicious Anglicisation and harmonisation with the UK.”
Yes, Schiller’s ‘packaged consciousness’ comes to ‘mind’! Colonialism and with that Cultural and Linguistic Imperialism and of course Cultural Assimilation (and with that Cultural Obliteration!) are very well established theories. Applying each of them to the Scottish situation therefore brings us closer to our wretched reality. We even have our own term for our oppression – the Scottish Cultural Cringe.
Albert Memmi described the colonized nation as “a diseased society” whilst Frantz Fanon and others define the “colonized mentality”, which tells us that what we are really dealing with here is a psychological condition – and which for some also reflects a denial of oppression.
Whilst the nationalist elite focus on the importance of party organization – and that is based on the notion of ‘the party’ as imported from the mother country – it really needs to develop a more complete understanding and study of what is and remains a colonial society. Without this understanding of our predicament, the nationalist elites miss even the most obvious – that independence means decolonisation and hence liberation of a people and their culture.
@Robbo 7:58am
Re the Ferries. It is a situation that nobody in Scotland wants to be in but we are where we are. The market rate for a consultant engineer is a lot less than 3000 per day. It would be nearer 500 to 750 per day. Most engineering projects that go wrong have some sort of fix or solution. The Ferguson Marine project has gone on too long as it is. As painful as it is, scrapping these Ferries is the best option with all the attendant embarrassment to it’s engineering reputation.
” April is the cruellest month …..”
Yea , well , maybe , but October is shaping-up to be stiff competition .
You wonder how much more shit people will take before a critical mass of discontent is reached and people start taking to the streets to DEMAND change .
If the coming months don’t produce such demand nothing will .
That big Red squirrel is growing larger every day eh ?
Alf Baird says:
1 April, 2022 at 10:00 am
Albert Memmi described the colonized nation as “a diseased society” whilst Frantz Fanon and others define the “colonized mentality”, which tells us that what we are really dealing with here is a psychological condition – and which for some also reflects a denial of oppression.
Aye, that could be right.
But at the same time, and not being an expert on psychology, I think a lot of this “mentality” is…. How can I describe it? It’s shallow, and fickle. Don’t get me wrong, it’s very real, but it’s not terminal. People suffering from cringe very often don’t see it in themselves and when it’s pointed out, they’re quite vociferous in denying they have the cringe.
It’s almost like a hypnosis that sneaks up on people, but a trance that’s easily broken with a snap of the fingers. The danger is, with no snap of the fingers, there’s no awakening.
A common theme in those Phantom Power NO to YES journeys after 2014 was people being in dreamland in 2014, believing all the doom and gloom, but then something happened to open their eyes, and suddenly they feel a terrible remorse about voting NO.
NO wasn’t an argument, NO was a state of mind. I don’t know of any true NO voter coming over to YES who was subsequently lured back by NO arguments. YES hadn’t so much won the argument, it had brought about a fundamental change in the person’s state of mind.
The Cringe might be everywhere and feel a bit daunting and oppressive, but in many people, it doesn’t run very deep. In 2014, and beyond, YES momentum had Cringe on the run…
I kinda wish I was a psychologist, because if we’re dealing with altered states of mind rather than winning arguments, I’m highly curious how that might play strategically in a Referendum situation trying to persuade people, versus a Constitutional end to the Union that aims to shake people out of their complacency.
Q: “As people across Scotland tighten their belts, can the First Minister explain why she thought it was right to pay Tim Hair over £2m, meaning he earned in just 11 days what the average Scot earns in a year?”
A: It’s tax-payer’s money. There’s an inexhaustible supply of it, when it’s being spent on stuff we want.
NOTE: The above answer is the correct one, but it was not actually said by anybody, as it’s a state secret, not to be revealed in case the voters get restless.
Alf Baird says:
1 April, 2022 at 10:00 am
“Applying each of them to the Scottish situation therefore brings us closer to our wretched reality…..”
Just finished “Doun-Hauden”, Alf – what a cracking read! Lots of things in there that become so obvious once you see them in print, like turning on a light-switch. Also stuff that I and I expect many others have been thinking for years but incredible when put out there by someone who’s done the research and knows exactly what their talking about and how to articulate it….
Stockholm Syndrome. Jockholm Syndrome. The Cringe. Complicity in your own Oppression.
– there is definitely a crucial aspect of “mass psychology” going on here. But a more personal anecdote :
I was asked by some relatives to “check out the numbers” on some financial deal they had signed up to; it turned out it was a scam, linked to a timeshare property they had. I told them they were scammed and suggested they go to the police.
– they turned on me.
YIR TALKIN RUBBISH … TOTAL SHITE … AHM GETTIN THE BOY – HE EXPLAINED IT AW … AWAY WI YIR PISH
This -shocked- me, their reaction; I was only trying to help them out. But I became the villain. After a while, it dawned on them that their money was gone, their profits would be illusory, and the contact numbers they had were ringing out.
I then tried to get them to go to the law, get the police involved (these frauds don’t only have one victim, can be hundreds) – but while very angry, they would not do so; their shame and embarrassment was too much and it was officially “memory holed” among the wider family – no one would mention it, ever again.
While I am a nationalist for my own complex web of reasons – getting through to people, in practical terms, not romantic or historical – you need to talk about the MONEY. Everyone is interested in the money, and for nationalists, it should have been shooting fish in a barrel to make that argument – we have a direct comparison, Norway, right across the water, now the “richest country in the world” and top of every quality of life metric the UN measure.
THEM – US. Side by Side. It’s ugly – a vogue model juxtaposed to a police mugshot, and the only possible reason for this : membership of the UNION.
– this should be the “ice water over the head” that makes people “snap out of it”.
Keep banging that drum, you will win; the SNP should have been doing that, instead they accept as largely correct the nonsense of GERS. And right now, everyone is about to get forcibly sodomised by their energy bills – Providence -presents- the SNP with opportunity after opportunity to really land a blow, they don’t. Scotland is awash in energy, which should make it cheap, for us.
This is why I was a great fan of Colin Dunn’s infographics, and while I am yet to read Doon-Hauden, if it could be presented in the infographic style, I am sure it would penetrate more deeply – this is the era of the “meme” and good memes propagate.
As for the ferries, again in the news – Alf Baird’s expert testimony to the committee amounted to “do what NORWAY did”! – and yet the penny still didn’t seem to drop.
There is even a bit more of this “psychology” – cycles of abuse, the abused becomes the abuser; that the empire really goes “turbo mode” once the Scots get press-ganged into it, is notable; doesn’t make us the guilty ones (despite what Glasgow council are saying), it just adds another layer of humiliation – to fight well, for an evil cause, to enrich your enemies.
In any criminal enterprise, ironically, there is always a true set of books, for criminals do not trust each other; getting your hands on the “accountant” is the crux of many a crime fiction. So it is with the empire, somewhere, the true numbers must exist for all that was taken out of Scotland; if you could find and publish these, I think the union would be over, almost immediately.
The cost of living crisis is at levels I never expected I could ever see.
Millions without enough to eat properly and going cold in their own homes
watching their children going cold before parents go off to underpaid employment.
I’d like to declare that an independent Scotland will be self sufficient In energy just as soon
as we detach from Westminster abuse and corruption.
As per their Brexit tactics we say that if the deal when parting isn’t suitable we will pay nothing.
We can afford to eat and heat and be entirely debt free.
Do we need to break U.K. and international law, well Boris has been happy to do both so why not us fighting back with his own strategy.
We can be in the EU and the worlds largest trading market.
We can keep the human rights the Tories are going to tear up
and we could actually get the controlling government not imposed on us by English voters
I seldom if ever agree with Peter Bell but on his latest posting on his blog on this occasion he is correct , he opines that Joanna Cherry is following the sturgeon doctrine when it comes to our constitution and elaborates on that , I must admit I have been extremely disappointed that Cherry has saw fit to accept the denigration , isolation and degradation that sturgeon’s scum have immersed her in by remaining in the snp , and it now appears that she is not only craven but she relishes in drinking from the devil’s cup
https://peterabell.scot/2022/04/01/no-exception/?like_comment=60002&_wpnonce=7b5e4c82e8
The SNP’s Cardinal Richelieu, and possible next leader Angus Robertson, is off on a jaunt across the pond disguised as Tartan Day. Its billed as strengthening ties with the US and Canada.
Robertson will meet with officials at the USA’s State Department.
Robertson who was whisked away from London to stand in Edinburgh to thwart Joanna Cherry’s bid to become an SNP MP because Sturgeon the betrayer of Scots fears her, will of course be reassuring the US State Department that Scottish independence is definitely NOT on the cards.
I think the last time SNP politician headed to the States the Daily Records political editor whose name eludes me for now also tagged along and inside info was shared.
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Breeks.
Alf Baird.
The answer to the “NO” mindset in Scotland being awakened may come unexpectedly from the very side doing the psychological condition.
Life itself has taken some mind boggling turns since 2014. And this in of it self may be a snap of the fingers that is required.
1: We are about to face higher energy bills in our homes and businesses due the way our governments in britain are following experimental climate change theory for the middle and lower class of society only.
while they them selves continue jet setting, holidaying and the ownership of multi big cars and four by fours in private. Like Rushi Sunak and most of the house of lords.
2: We were told in 2014 that our pensions would be in jeopardy if we left the safety net of GB,
since then we have seen the pension age rise to a point that many are to ill in much older age before they attain their pension or are looking after their partners whom are ill, perhaps become a widower or widowed.
While a obvious pension steal happened to 50s born women saving the uk government over £3 million.
3: We evidenced a large scale of bias during covid lockdowns, where certain marches were banned while others brought chaos and were allowed to continue,
We also were witness to many in our parliaments visiting second homes, visiting their families, testing the eyesight with road trips,
and others having close up contact during extra matrimonial affairs. Not keeping the recommended distance they advised.
While MPs and media held parties in secret.
And to top it all NS not wearing a face mask at Prince Philips memorial service , standing and sitting in close contact with those down south, while still recommending the rest of Scotlands people to wear masks like a mini dictator.
4: We see the evident physical and psychological damage being imposed on our women and children with the trans women? Encroaching on safe spaces, brain washing children in schools with out parents consent or knowledge,
5: We are in the middle petrol pump prices crises, curtailing hospital visits for the less well of, pushing up the price of the shopping and food bills
We see sitting parliamentariens spend time and money on parties with MSM and traveling in secrecy, from kate and Wills to charlie and balmoral holidays for the summer.
I tend to agree It is possible to break the slowly imposed sublimely educated trance that has been inflicted on people for years, by pointing to obvious flaws between how the governments behave towards the middle and lower class while most of the people suffer,
they party and do not follow the same set of rules they impose.
And this was a very important role that Rev Stu bought to our attention in the lead up to and during the last referendum.
He opened our eyes big time on facts and figures.
Showing the deceit of the governments, the manipulation of MSM news on the masses, it shocked a lot of us awake where we had been sleeping our lives away.
If anything is to change the “NO” attitude this time around in Scotland to a Yes it will be that the abuse of governments on its people since 2014 that effects everyone in all there homes, families and businesses.
In 2014 many could afford to succumb to saying “No” to Scotland finding a better way forward for its people.
The “Nos” in inevitable bought in Nicola Sturgeon, when the referendum was lost.
A women and her party that cares little for peoples welfare, or for honesty and integrity when it approaches law, finances or MSM support.
Who is not going to be affected with globalist ideology in 2022.
For it drains all our households of finances, of petrol in our cars, of the possibility to have food delivered to shops thus to the table.
It seriously effects our childrens futures.
It effects our pensions.
Our industries and employment prospects.
And a possible looming third world war with Scotland being a sitting duck target harbouring nuclear weapons.
Even those whom moved here for a more peaceful life from other areas of the world must come out of this trance.
It is time for those of us awake to suggest that we can choose a different economy,
A safer education for our children.
To respect women as we do others.
To be rid of dangerous nuclear war.
To rid our selfs of woke speech and restrictions on freedom of speech.
And this can done without a section 30 piece of paper,
without the devolved government.
The devolved government in Scotland is not sovereign.
The old English parliament was sovereign before the treaty of the union in 1707.
And unless it claims to be an English Parliament that continued
we must remember the English Parliament ceased to exist when the 1707 treaty of the union was signed.
While Scotland pronounced its Scottish Parliament SINE Die. It was still not sovereign.
And as Lord Cooper stated in 1953 that while sovereignty of parliament is a uniquely English concept, it has no parallel in Scottish constitution.
The people of Scotland are sovereign.
We should not be in a trance or wrongly led astray as to whom holds sovereignty in Scotland.
No wonder NS and the snp do not join in at our independence marches.
No wonder it was one of the few marches that NS and local Councillors try banning compared with other marches.
The power of both governments over the Sovereignty of the Scottish nation of people,
is a fallacy deliberately imposed upon the Scots minds psychologically.
The SNP does not wish for the people in Scotland to wake up and realise she does not have or hold ultimate power over the people in Scotland as is likewise with the the Great British Government whom lacks a constitution, unlike Scotlands long standing constitution.
And i will ask other members of Alba with regards to this issue.
James @ 1:15 pm
“Just finished “Doun-Hauden”, Alf – what a cracking read! Lots of things in there that become so obvious once you see them in print, like turning on a light-switch.”
Cheers James, that’s very kind of you. Structured theoretical frameworks do tend to be quite useful in explaining a phenomenon in some depth. I was surprised that no Scottish academic had ever undertaken such a study before me on the fundamentally important national matter of Scottish independence, although rather less so when one begins to understand why Scottish academics remain a minority in most of Scotland’s own universities, and the Cultural/Ethnic Division of Labour that prevails within the UK Internal Colonialism Model.
Last two comments in moderation…then disappeared with no explanation….why after nearly 10 x years, I wonder why?
Will this comment go the same way?
@ Lochside
Occasionally comments do get held in moderation and sometimes one scratches one’s head wondering why and guessing what trigger words Stu may have added to word filter.
FYI If I recall correctly 1nc0mer with letters rather than numerals may be one that will get held in moderation.
AUOB..Bikers wi Yes on yir Jeckets arriving in Arbroath fir the rally wi yir bikes on trailers tonight…ehm,, yir no really bikers.. yir jist kiddy on.
Guess who has won World Cup already. Oh and does anybody here have 12 million to pay me to go away?
I laughed at Iran getting the two great Satan’s in the USA and England.
WashingtonPost (29/03/2022): The truth about Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian ‘bio labs’:
“One of the laptop emails shows Hunter Biden contacting an official at Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company where he was a board director, in April 2014 about the possibility of a “science project” involving Metabiota.
The reply email from the Burisma official indicates some skepticism and confusion about what Biden was pitching…”:
https://archive.ph/cNY3d
James Che. says:
1 April, 2022 at 4:48 pm
The answer to the “NO” mindset in Scotland being awakened may come unexpectedly from the very side doing the psychological condition.
Life itself has taken some mind boggling turns since 2014. And this in of it self may be a snap of the fingers that is required.
Different triggers for different people.
A football or rugby team can develop a hardcore supporter base of loyal fans who turn up in all weathers, but nothing fills the stands like sustained success on the pitch.
What I mean by that is hardship and deprivation will impact on some people, but nothing will swell the YES numbers like determined campaign that’s on course to succeed.
Rather than a sudden Constitutional victory and Scottish Independence dropping through their letterbox, the inevitability of a Constitutional victory needs to be hoisted like a mainsail, and time allowed for it catching a wind.
This works two ways don’t forget… A positive YES campaign that knows it’s going to succeed will swell support, but the reverse is true for a NO campaign which knows it cannot defeat Scotland’s Constitutional Sovereignty.
Lochside says:
1 April, 2022 at 6:34 pm
Last two comments in moderation…then disappeared with no explanation….why after nearly 10 x years, I wonder why?
Will this comment go the same way?
I bet it will be some word triggering a filter Lochside, and Rev Stu likely being busy to moderate comments.
I does happen to us all. I too have been left wondering by an occasional comment going missing, but I just roll with it. If it’s a word triggering a filter, chances are I can figure out which word it is.
They all lied to you (public/world):
FDA (2018): What is Gene Therapy?
“Gene therapy is a technique that modifies a person’s genes…”:
https://archive.ph/qDHnW
UKGov (01/04/2022): “lipids are an essential component in COVID vaccines as well as other gene therapies”:
https://archive.ph/gKE6a
Sturgeon the betrayers indy carrot now being dangled just that little bit closer, expect it to get even closer as the council elections get closer.
Don’t buy into this shite yet again vote Alba, and help remove some of the careerist SNP troughing councillors in Scotland.
“The bill laying the path for a second Scottish independence referendum will not be put before Holyrood ahead of the local elections, according to a new report.”
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Sturgeon playing to the female voters (real women) in Scotland hoping for their votes in May. We know the opposite is true and that Sturgeon is actively rolling back women and girls rights with her GRA/Self-Id agenda.
I’m sure many women know this and will not vote SNP come May, and who could blame them.
“Sturgeon said: “Across the Scottish Government, we are working hard to ensure gender inequality becomes a thing of the past, and to make Scotland a more inclusive place for women and girls.”
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This is how gutless and spineless, and politically incorrect Scottish politicians have become, as this commentor points out. Unless of course the subject is Ukraine.
“I AM dismayed that City of Edinburgh Council pulled the discussion of twinning with Gaza from its policy committee meeting. This is because Israel declared it would be supporting Hamas by discussing it, even if it were a negative discussion.”
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Breeks.
Positive campaigns are a must, i agree with you on that. That is exactly what happened in 2014.
However there were many sites and information coming our way at that time too.
The social landscape has changed considerable since then.
And wether the middle, the poor or the wealthy would normally vote NO to independence ordinary circumstances will not matter this time around,
Scotland is a country were food has to travel miles to get from one place to another, as is medicines, etc,
Without a sustainable fuel source being provided by our own governments for heating and travelling the vast areas between towns in Scotland, there will be a much larger amount of
The population effected than just the poorer people of Scotland, like it was in 2014.
To miss out on what is about to become obviously a serious issue for all people living in Scotland ( wealthy or poor) is temporary blindness in a campaign for independence.
Independence for Scotland has the possibility to change these issues that bring a country to its knees.
To get rid of a devolved government following other paid for puppet masters ideologies. And without doubt the rogue Snp and greens long term.
Keep the marches upbeat, keep meetings up beat, but do not miss out on the reality of what is happening to Scotland and the forth coming events with fuel and energy starvation that will impact all of us,
To miss this evident tool in the campaign box is disasterous.
On the another topic we have been discussing this week,
It has crossed my mind that within the scottish constitution the Scottish people are sovereign.
Not politicians as a registered party.
So surely if we were as a nation to claim our independence, this could not be done with any involved political party that is registered.
For that officially would create UDI.
It is not for a political party to lead us forward to independence at all.
I am surprised that this area of legality has never arisen in the independence movement.
It is the difference between the claim of right of sovereign people or a political party claiming it is sovereign.
Republicofscotland says:
2 April, 2022 at 11:10 am
“Sturgeon said: “Across the Scottish Government, we are working hard to ensure gender inequality becomes a thing of the past, and to make Scotland a more inclusive place for women and girls.”
Yeah. More inclusive because it includes men.
The Daily Mail, the non tax paying Hitler supporting right wing propaganda pamphlet had
eased up a little on everything Scottish bad but they haven’t lost it with all guns blazing with
absurd article after article to try and stop independence parties and supposed independence
parties doing well in the council elections.
No self sufficient in energy colony is leaving their ownership when billionaires are in their pockets.
Surely under the Scottish Constitution NS can only advise the Scots.
As she nor the Scottish devolved government are not sovereign.
Nor are the Local Councils.
If we are to act upon our sovereignty as a Scottish people, We should politely inform them when we will march.
It is For them to make accommodating arrangements and provisions around us.
Not the other way round.
If you’re a mad dog mercenary and what to earn $2K plus a day get in touch we need you in Ukraine.
https://silentprofessionals.org/jobs/extraction-protective-agents-ukraine/
twathater @4:36pm (yesterday)
Bell maintains that only the SNP can deliver us from evil so he needs the likes of Cherry to keep his hopes alive. Cherry may be an awesome lawyer, but a leader she is not. It’s hardly surprising given the amount of abuse she’s handled gracefully so far, that she’d sign up for more.
Any new leader will have to clean the stables pretty thoroughly, coming up with structures that would prevent another infection by parasites in the future. That’s a pretty tall order from anyone.
twathater @4:36pm (yesterday)
Bell maintains that only the SNP can deliver us from evil so he needs the likes of Cherry to keep his hopes alive. Cherry may be an awesome lawyer, but a leader she is not. It’s hardly surprising given the amount of abuse she’s handled gracefully so far, that she’d sign up for more.
Any new leader will have to clean the stables pretty thoroughly, coming up with structures that would prevent another infection by parasites in the future. That’s a pretty tall order from anyone.
I wonder why he chose a picture of Joanna with Alex and Tasmina. It can’t be a coincidence.
Apologies for the double post – the first one returned an error so I tried again.
@James Che 11.57 am
“Positive campaigns are a must, i agree with you on that. That is exactly what happened in 2014.”
Remind us how that 2014 campaign ended James? There is indeed a place for positive campaigns, but mono maniacal happy-clappy positivity on its own failed us then, and will fail us again if its the only string in our bow. The 2014 campaign did convert many people, and it was rightly celebrated at the time for its atmosphere and ability to convert No’s to Yes, particularly amongst certain targeted groups.
But….and it’s a big but….there is also a place for negative campaigning. Project Fear won remember? The Yes campaign, for all its positive aspects, never really laid a glove on the No campaign and signally failed to respond to No camp scare stories about the major issues, whether currency, EU, pensions, “you won’t be able to watch the BBC”, defence and security, NATO membership, shipbuilding. All of it may have been crap, but there was no counter attack from Yes on Project Fear’s talking points: we were fighting with one hand tied behind our backs.
It was pointed out at the time by many – some of whom had direct experience – that Obama’s (successful) campaigns in the USA, and many other examples used both positive and negative messaging. We remember the reports of then Yes campaign staffers like current Green MSP Ross Greer scuttling around instructing Yes groups not to distribute or have anything to do with WoS Wee Blue Book.
It’s no accident that many of those intimately linked with the failed and lacklustre Yes campaign slithered effortlessly in to sinecures and positions of power and influence in the years since. Many of the candy floss haired Twitler Youth, TRA activists and their shills in the movement are a product of the relentlessly positive cultish aspects of the Yes campaign, and they’ve shown since that they parasitised the movement – and the SNP – and hollowed them out from within.
Things have of course changed a lot since 2014, but nothing I’m hearing from those in here bloviating about using non-party means, or abandoning Holyrood and referendums and plebiscitary elections for some “novel approach” centring the sovereignty of the people has come up with a convincing route map to the sunny uplands of independence. What they’re proposing may be possible, but all the arguments about the Scottish cringe, or having to de-colonise the mindset of Scots after 300 years of subjugation, to “learn how to be a nation again” etc. seem to me to be the work of generations.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to wait until after I’m dead.
@ Stuart MacKay as I stated in the post Stuart I very seldom if ever agree with PAB but his post on JC aligns with my thoughts , I and I presume lots of others had visions of JC FORCING the constitutional argument through the Scottish courts and onward to the ECJ and UN especially after her success against the twats in WM , but it appears Ms Cherry aligns herself more with the messianic monster than she does with the freedom and rights of her country and her people
Her abuse and denigration by the messianic monsters taliban troops without any sign of support from her party or party leadership would have encouraged her to do everything in her power to show she will not be cowed I would have thought , THAT aligned with her public humiliation in being replaced as snp legal advocate by a student of interpretive dance surely must indicate the contempt the party hierarchy hold for you
Her and the contemptable others SILENCE indicates that they condone what is happening in Scotland by the deviant pervert and her minions and for that they earn my detestation and abhorrence , Remember the saying Stuart ALL it takes for EVIL to TRIUMPH is for good people to do NOTHING , and JC and others are doing NOTHING
Men and women can never be «equal» by virtue of there being biological differences.
They can however be equal as human beings, as citizens and before the law.
Men and women thus enjoy parity transcending biology and sex characteristics.
Importing the nonce term «gender» into the frame is designed to distort the realities of biology, a deviance perverting politics and science.
Ottomanboi,
You hit the nail on the head.
Modern Gender issues are indeed “deviance” for the few. In politics.
Andy,
Thank you for the confirmation in most of what i spoke of earlier.
Indeed we have to come at this from both sides. and all angles.
As to the rest of it I may be ahead by introducing a third or perhaps forth element.
I think you realise that what has to be gained in footholds on the way to independence for Scotland is relevent..
Twathater.
When i personally view the actions of the present snp.
All i see is rot in a barrel.
And the greens whom we did not vote in, in the last election are spreading the contamination further.
It is advertised in all the legislation they put forward for Scotland and its people.
Lets hope we can prevent it from happening,
@Republic 12:47
Have you read the job spec? Do you understand what it is for?
Let me help. It’s for the recruitment of professional security personnel who can be employed to assist non-combatants to escape from the Ukrainian war zone. So, perhaps, answering the need for families who can afford it to engage competent assistance to get their wives, kids, elderly parents, etc out of the Russian-initiated hellhole to safety.
Honestly Republic, do you ever post truthfully about anything? Or do you just assume the intelligence of every reader here can always be insulted?
I genuinely want to know why you think Scots Indy can be helped by your constant pro-Putin bias against Ukraine. Maybes somebody here can shed some light on how well pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine sloganeering is going down on the doorsteps.
Gregs 10:21 am
A lipid is a group containing many different types of organic chemical compounds. These compounds all share the attribute of being insoluble in water.
Lipids have no effects either for or against Scots Indy, and no authority, expert or conspiracy theorist sees any likelihood of that ever changing.
Lipids have no application or relevance in any discussion of the subject of this thread.
Why don’t you pour yourself a dram, butter one of your signature baps, and contemplate how you could construct future posts in support of the Scots Indy cause?
twathater
You’ll find no disagreement from me there. That Bell still clings on to the notion that only the SNP can deliver independence is beyond me. Only a thorough cleaning from top to bottom will change the party to be pro-independence. Once you’ve that kind of deep-clean it would be a shame to put the old label back on the new tin.
Well the weather turned out pretty good for the ride to, and the march at Arbroath today.
Of course in Bernard de Linton’s mind we all trailered our bikes up yesterday and kipped in a motel coz we are not real bikers… 😉
Clip of YES Bikers.
https://twitter.com/GrahamP58/status/1510290019277287428
Has L0chs1d3 rewrote his post, turning all the “e”s into 3s, “a”s into 4s, etc?
robin mcalpine has a bit out, getting into the quango-crats and “knife and fork” job people.
@John Main 6.05 pm
“I genuinely want to know why you think Scots Indy can be helped by your constant pro-Putin bias against Ukraine. Maybes somebody here can shed some light on how well pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine sloganeering is going down on the doorsteps.”
Having observed a few individuals like Putin’s Parrot “Republic of Scotland” over the past few weeks I think there are only two reasonable explanations for the behaviour of these skid marks on the independence movement:
1) These pieces of work sincerely believe in the Putinista agitprop. They are ideological bitter einders. Their world view is so twisted by their misguided belief that there is a moral equivalence between the war criminals in the Kremlin and the leadership of western style liberal democracies, that they unselfconsciously use terms like “Great Satan” for the USA, and regurgitate the usual whataboutery about [insert any given intractible problem here].
At base, much of it comes out of the sophomoric politics of anti-zionism, anti-globalism, yadda, yadda, yadda…. What is worse of course is when it tips them over the edge that they descend in to full on tin foil hat wearing “illuminati / the WEF / George Soros / the Gates foundation / space lizards” direct the world.
2) They’re paid operatives / wreckers. aiming to derail the movement.
As for how it goes down on the doorstep, I don’t think these roasters give a flying fuck at a rolling donut about popular support. Ideological purity is far more important to them. They’d rather retain their purity and lose than compromise and win. Like so many fringe nutters, it’s not about winning over a majority…or even that many people…it IS about being in the vanguard, isn’t it?
It’s very doubtful the Redgraves honestly believed the WRP would come to power or convince the majority of British people. I’m pretty convinced they’d happily have imposed their views on the majority if the circumstances had ever allowed though. Folk like RoS and other Putinista shills would happily live in the kind of society Putin is constricting in Russia, as long as they were on the right side.
Why do you think RoS and his mates don’t see the contradiction of purportedly being supporters of Scottish independence, while glorying in the attempted extinction of the Ukraine by its imperial neighbour? It’s because they’re frauds, utterly without moral compasses. They’re poison to the movement.
@ Dan: good to see that you were in Arbroath today. I watched indylive and spotted a Wings banner, and sat in the sun to hear Mike Russell’s “inspiring” speech. It’s a good thing that he was 200 miles away so he couldn’t hear my commentary. I wonder if he heard Eva Comrie who was the next speaker?
Hi Sarah.
It was a fine afternoon. Met Dan, Ronnie Anderson, Wee Annie and some other Wingers after the march. My WOS flag completed the march successfully. The slight breeze played havoc with my eyes and nostrils though.
The X7, Perth to Aberdeen and return, is a comfy bus. One of these high level single-deckers.
Forgot to name “the Prickly One” and X-sticks.
(Rev Stu – delete comment at 9:37 in moderation.)
@Bdtt: was that you carrying the Wings banner then? I will have to try to watch the film again!!
That sounds a goodly number of Wingers. Did the subject of painting Alex’s shed come up, by any chance, or was Wee Annie’s campaign to be a Dundee councillor the hot topic? Good on her for stepping up to the plate. I’ve been poring over the wards on Ballot Box Scotland where Alba is standing to see if there are any obvious hopeful ones. The Dundee wards all have the full complement of other big parties standing, sadly – however Dundee is a great Yes city so I do feel quite hopeful nevertheless.
I wonder if Russell will dare report what was said about mandates to She Who Must be Obeyed? Silly question. Of course he won’t. If he had any gumption he would have insisted she resign long before this.
Often, with the news, the headline LIES, or subtly misrepresents, only to be corrected, much further on, if at all, in the body of the story.
Tomorrow, the Hunday Mail has
SALMOND SEX TRIAL PERJURY PROBE
– which on a quick glance, makes it look like Salmond, grinning in the photo, is the one being investigated for lying, but it’s not it’s “one of the witnesses”, probably Woman H.
I am sure the cops will leave no stone undisturbed. Police Scotland are releasing “top men” for this investigation, precisely – the officer who has been investigating the CIA torture flights out of Prestwick, his report is due in to the fiscal, very soon. As soon as he is finished, he will be all over it. Yes.
Thanks Dan and BDTT for the update on the Arbroath March , when I saw the photos of Russell it made me nearly throw up , these people have NO SHAME , imposter syndrome posing as a independence supporter just like the disgusting ?reviled messianic one
I see the carrot has been delayed until after the May local elections the never ending DRAFT report on the proposal , the brain dead snp sheeple will still make excuses , the SECRET plan is still live hahahah
https://archive.ph/emPU0
Nicola Sturgeon’s sinking feeling>/b>
The CalMac fiasco has exposed the first minister to mockery for her ‘reindustrialisation’ vision, writes Alex Massie
https://archive.ph/Bod4p
Derek Mackay ‘to set record straight’ at CalMac ferries inquiry
https://archive.ph/9YpFj
Move over, Henry VIII — SNP wants your throne
“This is the context in which to understand the provisions in the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill, which is wending its way through Holyrood.”
” The CalMac fiasco has exposed the first minister to mockery for her ‘reindustrialisation’ vision, writes Alex Massie ”
We’re Going Down ! * man * the lifeboats , women and children last , First Minister , eh …first .
The now over-used phrase ” holed below the waterline ” might actually be appropriate in this instance .
Time to call-in those lie-managers , oops ….Enquiry * coaches *
” Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart ( farce ) does go on
Once more, you open the door ( Responsibility Exit )
And you’re here in my heart ( crosshairs )
And my heart ( revenge ) will go on and on ( and on and on and on ….)
One titanic fuck-up after another . Damn the torpedoes
Good on Julia Hartley Brewer for asking every politician what a woman is. Has Sturgeon been asked yet?
https://tinyurl.com/mpd6bndb
Julia Hartley Brewer’s transgender clash with Labour MP
https://tinyurl.com/2h3yubty
Julia Hartley Brewer asks Labour MP: ‘Can a woman have a penis?’
https://tinyurl.com/2dtn5rts
Julia Hartley-Brewer: ‘I will be asking every politician what a woman is’
@Andy Ellis 9:20 PM
Hard to find anything to quibble with in your post.
Maybes Wingers, seeing as how there’s some important elections coming up, could agree to leave Ukraine off the agenda.
It’s not as if there isn’t anything else to write about …
@Robert Hughes 9:37 am
” holed below the waterline ”
As well as the nautical relevance, is that also a euphemism used within the trans community? Or did I just imagination that?
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyrecord.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fscottish-news%2Fsalmond-sex-trial-perjury-probe-26621859
Alex Salmond sex assault trial perjury claims being investigated
This is excellent!
The following was posted on Gettr:
“Furthermore, none of the ‘victims’ decided to take the ‘Goodwillie’ route and take Mr Salmond to civil proceedings where as we know the burden of proof is lower… makes you think…”
This is Scotland’s presence:
World Economic Forum (2018): Time has Come to Seize the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s Opportunities…
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution’s opportunities to foster development are immense but countries need to work to seize them, leaders from government, business and civil society…”:
https://archive.ph/bEFzu
ScotGov (01/03/2022): Delivering economic transformation:
New panel to attract key international investment to Scotland:
“…strategy is expected to include details of a new investor panel, to be chaired by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
“As we look beyond the pandemic we must be ready to seize the economic opportunities that come with achieving net-zero…”:
The National Strategy for Economic Transformation has been written in conjunction with business leaders, academics, trade unions and economists that were appointed to an Advisory Council…”:
https://archive.ph/duNsI
UKGov: Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution:
“Throughout our history we have seized the opportunities to create a better future for ourselves…
Technological breakthroughs in areas from artificial intelligence to biotechnologies are now heralding a Fourth Industrial Revolution, with the power to reshape almost every sector in every country. Our Industrial Strategy positions the UK to make the most of this global transformation.”:
https://archive.ph/qo31h
HeraldScot (15/07/2019): The fourth industrial revolution should be Scotland’s present – not just its future:
“As we enter a new era of technological change, there is a clear and concerted ambition to reverse that process. This is perhaps best exemplified by the Scottish Government…”:
https://archive.ph/st454
World Economic Forum: People:
Nicola Sturgeon: First Minister of Scotland, Office of the First Minister of Scotland:
https://archive.ph/7PGrG
ScotGov: Innovation, technological advances and the changing world of work: Do we understand Scotland’s future skills needs?
The future of industry, work and skills:
“The World Economic Forum has also carried out analysis and futures thinking, which broadens this out into other industries…
The combined literature paints a good picture of the changes we can expect in the coming years…”:
https://archive.ph/TpgEh
https://archive.ph/qNQVI
Six foot trans goalkeeper who used to play men’s football is now selected for England Universities’ women’s side
There are currently 550 BTL comments. I haven’t read them all but those I did read it would seem most people think this is crazy.
What do you think?
Insider: Scotland must ‘seize the opportunities’ of 4IR to generate a prosperous future:
“Scotland needs to seize on the opportunities presented by the fourth industrial revolution and build on…”:
https://archive.ph/DM6WY
SCDI: Help us build Scotland’s Green Recovery:
Building Back Better:
“The current crisis also presents significant new challenges and opportunities to accelerate our progress…”:
https://archive.ph/ahRzc
FutureScot (2019): ‘Scotland’s businesses can lead the fourth industrial revolution’:
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a term many businesses have become all-too-familiar with, and though only coined as a phrase in 2015 by German engineer and economist, Klaus Schwab, the truth is we’ve been firmly part of it for some time and it’s evolving at lightning speed…”
https://archive.ph/As7a4
World Economic Forum:
“The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation…”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum
Uhoh, Gregs has discovered this thread.
Enjoy your spam breakfasts Wingers.
Spam dinners, spam teas, spam suppers and spam midnight snacks to follow.
John Main says:
3 April, 2022 at 10:16 am
@Andy Ellis 9:20 PM
” Maybes Wingers, seeing as how there’s some important elections coming up, could agree to leave Ukraine off the agenda.
It’s not as if there isn’t anything else to write about … ”
John Main says:
3 April, 2022 at 10:23 am
@Robert Hughes 9:37 am
” holed below the waterline ”
” As well as the nautical relevance, is that also a euphemism used within the trans community? Or did I just imagination that? ”
Good call on the 1st John . I think we’ve all stated our views on the Ukraine situation . As usual , doesn’t seem like any change occurred in those views through arguments here .
On the 2nd . LOL . My great respect and empathy for and with the Transcendental Mediation Community forbids me to comment on your vile innuendo 🙂
I joked a while back about how the Trans mob try to portray themselves as the most persecuted demographic in history – on a par with the Holocaust – an ( attempted ) comedic exaggeration on my part ; only to see a comment the other day by a * member * of that community actually claiming precisely that !!
Life imitating * Art * imitating hilarious-if-it-wasn’t-true self-aggrandising spurious victimhood
Scotsman (14/03/2022): ‘Big four consultancy firms earn £50m from Scottish taxpayer funded contracts’:
‘More than £50 million has been spent on advice and consultants by the Scottish Government with just five companies in the past decade, it can be revealed.’:
https://archive.ph/1ZCaS
HeraldScot (25/11/2021): ‘SNP Government’s consultancy costs soar as £25m paid out over last five years’:
‘SNP ministers have been accused of spending an “eye-watering amount of money” on consultants – after it was revealed more than £25 million has been paid out to just four companies over the last five years (re. Deloitte; Ernst and Young; Price Waterhouse Coppers (PwC); Grant Thornton; KPMG)…”:
https://archive.ph/70lEc
Deloitte: Deloitte and the World Economic Forum: Making an impact on the global agenda:
“Deloitte is a long-standing strategic partner of the World Economic Forum…”:
https://archive.ph/Tznmt
World Economic Forum: Partners:
EY:
https://archive.ph/5tdNQ
World Economic Forum: Partners:
PwC:
https://archive.ph/mzxfD
Grant Thornton: World Economic Forum: blockchain is key to sustainable digital finance:
The latest World Economic Forum (WEF) report, praises blockchain technology as a key factor…”:
https://archive.ph/mxLMx
World Economic Forum: Partners:
KPMG:
https://archive.ph/p2Ha4
….That’s all, thanks (re. WEF Scot Gov Ltd unprecedented funneling of Scottish taxpayers money to WEF: Scotland’s new strategic policy makers).
Alf baird, Friday @ 10 am
Rejecting the recently packaged consciousness in favour of a potentially more strategic take on the cunning plan, could the new monohull ferries be more suitable than catamarans for, say, a 6 days per week Dunbar-Stavangar- Esberg – Zebrugge service (and/or northern lights cruises in the winter) ?
If so, over and above the question of how many more might be needed for the Hunterston – Campbeltown refuelling route (ie via Milford Haven, Balboa & Galway,etc), and any concerns about the wisdom of relying on fuel from Kent or Milford Haven were Scotland in EU and England & Wales not, might an LNG import-export terminal in, say, Shetland be able to facilitate their provision whilst also creating critical infrastructure that will (one day) please even the greens by optimising efficiency of EU trade to Alaska, China, Japan, Australia, etc. through the north east passage ?
If so, why not take the masks off for real next week and do Scotland’s own bit to accelerate world peace with an indy declaration replete with invitation to Biden Putin & Lasalle* to send the most charismatic of their unvaccinated troops, generals and election monitors and stand for Scotland, liberty, equality, friendship, independence, trust in God, etc – pending agreement on date of S30 ref to confirm/ reject the idea..
Extra brownie points if they manage to squeeze in urgent retraction, pending review of the bribe clause(s) (contractor specified community benefits), of the Islay replacement ferry procurement contract(s) or, subject to input from current captains and crew, initiation of a doubling down on a pragmatic future with feasibility study and long term programme to replace all the inshore ferries with catamarans built in the government owned shipyard(s) 🙂
* and all other candidates still in with reasonable chance of becoming EU President/ golden shareholder in Total Mobil Gdf Suez Edf, etc. by middle of this year
Scottish Prism is good today…
https://www.barrheadboy.com/through-a-scottish-prism-3-04-22/
So English Labour’s Transport minister said power rationing might be needed in the UK, then to stop from scaring the horses backtracked on that statement. The EU nations are already considering this approach as well.
Scotland has more than enough energy to keep the lights on, however energy isn’t a devolved matter, and our current FM Sturgeon the betrayer isn’t interested in removing Scotland from this bucket of sewage union.
Add in that the cost of living is skyrocketing, partly due to Brexit, and other world aspects, and with Nato’s war against all things Russian, fuel has jumped in price and will jump again in October and it will probably rise even higher in cost, and people will die in the UK unable to make ends meet, or heat their homes.
Sturgeon could’ve mitigated some of the pain and suffering with independence but she chose not to, Johnson doesn’t give a toss about the poor that is evident for all to see.
Dan , thanks for the bikers – it always does the heart good to see them!
BDTT , how is Ronnie ? and Prickly pal?
Off to watch it all again!
Gregor.
The unelected wef has certainly got its foot in the back door of ns devolved government,
She acts and copies most of what they put forward.
No wonder we are in a mess.
Wait to they try doing away with cash.
You will own nothing, and you and your savings will be controlled from far away fingers.
They will be able to cut of all digital cash supplies to all of your household,
should you ever display the slight voice of opposition to their politics.
Suddenly no access to youre mortgage payments,
No cash allowence suddenly available for travel.
Control over your pension and saving not in your hands.
With a cashless society you are easily controlled.
No more holidays or going out for a meal.
If they decide they do not like what you do or say.
A bit like big tech cancelling free speech.
And did not NS follow this wef agenda Changing what we can or cannot say freely in Scotland.
Funding buys politicians.
I see Ellis’s Sphincter muscle is tightening greatly because he knows as do others that US/Western hegemony is on the wane, and with Putin requiring Rubles for energy/goods and bringing gold as a currency for buying Russian goods back into the equation, the balance is if not yet tipping away from the dollar is the East at least it is certainly moving.
That’s why there’s been such a brainwashing of folk in the West over the operation by Russia in Ukraine, relations between the West and Russia will never be the same again, Russia will trade mostly with non hostile nations, which make up the bulk of the worlds countries, hostile nations will need to pay in gold or Roubles.
Nice to hear so many wingers were at Arbroath yesterday,
Were can i see that,
We drove the other direction to meet with AS and Alba stalls to show some support.
ReNewed enthusiasm and activity in the independence movement gets a thumbs up from us.
Michael Russell tells Arbroath independence rally Scotland is on path to indyref2, and there’s more chance of the gun for hire Nato being disbanded, than Johnson issuing an S30, of which is Sturgeon’s only route out of this rancid union.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20041012.michael-russell-tells-arbroath-independence-rally-scotland-path-indyref2%2F
I wonder if ole Nick will try to curtail the marches and meetings with bias global covid scaremongering lockdowns in Scotland.
After seeing her taking no mask wearing pre- cautions or self- distancing when she was televised at prince philips memorial service recently down south.
There would be a tendency to ignore her deceitful ( advise).
Gregor,
Rationing of food, fuel, energy, water, etc could easily be controlled on people.
If we do not determinedly hang on to a physical monetary system.
Hi Dorothy.
Ronnie’s fine – he’s lost a lot of weight. Prickly is still doing his nocturnal meanderings.
Shame on you Mike Russell (re.“We are now through the pandemic”):
ScotGov: (22/02/2022): Living safely with Covid:
A new staged approach to easing protective measures will help Scotland manage and recover from the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The First Minister said:
“Covid is unfortunately still with us and we must therefore remain vigilant and prepared for the threats it poses…”:
https://archive.ph/Awkje
Glad to hear youre doing fine Ronnie,
Best wishes for it to continue.
@Putin’s Poodle 1.56 pm
Only a fully paid up Putinista could look at the current situation and think its going well for the Russians or presages the fall of US/western hegemony. The much vaunted Russian army just had its arse handed to it by a bunch of amateurs: imagine what a mauling it would take if it ever face real opposition. That’s the real reason why Putin and his fellow war criminals would never contemplate a real confrontation with NATO.
It also explains why Ukraine was so keen to join, and why they’ll be very sure that any future neutrality has rock solid guarantees to protect them from future Russian aggression and more war crimes. They will also doubtless ensure they have state of the art western supplied air defence systems, modern fighters and other materiel to ensure the Russians won’t risk another defeat.
Russia and its few remaining friends are heading back to the Cold War days of essentially being Upper Volta with nukes. They’ll be international pariahs: a bunch of spivs, gangsters and – now – war criminals with nowhere to go, and nobody to blame but themselves. Western companies won’t want to deal with them, they’ll be sanctioned within an inch of their lives, and their own people will soon realise that going back to the days of the USSR really sucks.
The economic hardship endured by Russia when the west stops buying its oil, gas and other raw materials will make any economic downturn here look tam by comparison. With luck the Russian people will see sense eventually and do a Nicolae Ceau?escu on Putin and his mates.
I do not understand why a non- independent country like Scotland should be up talking warmongering attitudes or suggesting we should take sides.
While having a nuclear target on our doorstep.
We have a very similar regime here in Scotland do we not, that is suppressing its people slowly but surely
Lets concentrate on freeing ourselves in Scotland here on wings.
Who can we help, if we cannot free our own country?
@James Che 2.46 pm
You may not feel it’s important for people to “take sides” in the current situation James, but I’m pretty sure yours is very much a minority view. Nobody I know, whether pro-independence, unionist or non-political has any difficulty in picking a side between Ukraine and Russia.
Comparing our situation with the suppression of people in Ukraine or Russia suggests a lack of perspective on your part. Refusing to pick a side suggests lack of a moral compass. Sticking your head in the sand and advocating that we ignore what is going on elsewhere to “concentrate on freeing ourselves in Scotland” might be attractive and sound like a great strategy to some of the Putinistas and their shills disgracing the movement and this site in BTL comments here over recent weeks and months, but it goes down like a rat sandwich amongst the general public and most independence voters.
Sensible Alba members are already taking action to exclude and isolate those advocating for Putin and regurgitating his anti western agitprop.
As far as i understand from yesterdays meeting with Alba, that is a skewed point you quoted,
Alba are highlighting the other hidden wars not mentioned such as yemen etc, while the russia phobia one is all you hear about in msm.
I think Alba have recognised the one sided rhetoric.
Dorothy Devine says:at 1:49 pm
“Dan , thanks for the bikers – it always does the heart good to see them!
Off to watch it all again!”
It would have been good for your nose too if you’d been there, as I attempted to increase Arbroath Smokieness by dribbling some Castrol R on my exhaust headers before we cruised through the toon to create a little nasal pleasure for those following and watching! 🙂
” Sensible Alba members are already taking action to exclude and isolate those advocating for Putin and regurgitating his anti western agitprop. ”
Ur they , aye ?
Hahahahahaha
“Only a fully paid up Putinista could look at the current situation and think its going well for the Russians or presages the fall of US/western hegemony.”
Ellis.
Oh but it is going well, the Nazi’s have almost been cleared out Mariupol, and their Nazi camp the Azovstal complex has been reduced to rubble.
Russia as far as I can ascertain has only engaged sixty battle groups in Ukraine, with roughly 600-800 troops in battle group, it has now become a mopping up exercise and is so successful that Lugansk and South Ossetia want to join the Russian Federation.
Of course watching the same media’s coverage in the West of the operation in Ukraine that’s lied to us about Scottish independence for decades is laughable, the signs of desperation grow greater by their mouthpieces daily, and the lies and false flag incidents like they tried and reported on in Syria and Iraq are not believed anymore by those who care to take five minutes to see what’s really going on.
We all know Ellis that its your job to report the demise of Russia, however it doesn’t matter how you spin it, change is coming, and Nato and Europe has brought it on themselves.
Actually the war that the west is heading into was a long term plan.
I watched Henry Kissinger interview on television a long time ago.
To quote him.
“We will first take out seven eastern countries ” while Russia and China build themselves up,”
Then when we are ready, we will take down both Russia and China,
This is a pre- planned long term war stratergy. By Kissinger and his associated countries.
Anyone can check that interview out with research.
Why the antagonistic warmongering talk on a scottish independence site?
We as yet are a non independent small country whom are not allowed to bear arms according to the treaty of the union articles.
Perhaps more Scottish canon fodder is required.
@Robert Hughes 3.29 pm
Have you forgotten the late and unlamented candidate John Jones in Fife Robert….?
After spouting off about his admiration for Putin he got short shrift, as will others who believe the same. The below is a direct quote from Alba party in response to formal complaint process being instituted against John Jones:
“Hi Andy
Thank you for your enquiry.
Mr Jones is not a member of the Alba Party therefore is not subject to the disciplinary processes of party.
Yours for an independent Scotland,
Corri Wilson
Membership Co-ordinator
for and on behalf of
Alba Party.”
Facts, eh Robert?
As a palate cleanser to the main event of the day, there is a canoe paddle race going on down in the flatlands – the thames pedalo cup I think it is called. It’s like celtic-v-rangers(*) for posh english twats.
The origin of the oxford – cambridge split is lost in the mists of time but according to expert-homosexual richard starkey, it was all about bumming.
You see, in enlightened times, women were prevented from being educated (what would they do with it?) so it meant oxford was a “sausage factory”, and, well, you have to stick it in somewhere. So, an elaborate set of rules were developed to allow the effective negation of rules against sodomy, which, technically, could see you burned at the stake, or get a red hot poker shoved up your arse (Edward 2).
– these “local rules” were a lot like those surrounding “prison gayness” for normal men who have been banged up for a long stretch, e.g. you are not gay if you are giving it, only taking it, who is the “sissy”.
The oxford-cambridge split came about due to a fierce debate on the vexed question of “the reacharound” – can the giver, not technically be gay, be allowed to mastubate the taker while engaged in his own penetration?
– the hardline oxford sodomites decided that – touching another man’s penis willinlgy – WAS GAY, while the rebels (who founded cambridge) decided it was okay, at least within the context of the “rules” already in place.
And so things have developed, just so, with cambridge remaining the gayest uni in the UK, possibly the world; everyone gets into it, and some of the biggest fans, household names – the Apostles, JM Keynes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Cambridge Spies and Alan Turing, who got into unfortunate bother doing things up in Manchester, “which should have stayed in Cambridge”.
Cambridge, a great place for rampant queers who want to do pure maths and spy for Russia.
Oxford, more a networking opportunity for drugged-up toffs, where the quality of a man’s barf and his ability to smash up a chinese restaurant, mark out his destiny for high office.
why on earth, would these salmondite secessionists want to deprive us of the wise, firm but fair, leadership of the anglo saxon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtbS_PdA198&t=93s
Better Together – Belted Together – Better it was NEVER
Pooling and Sharing – Peeing and Shiting
@Putin’s Poodle 3.35 pm
No wonder Putin’s world is turning to ashes round about him: you’re drinking deep of the same Kool-aid he’s been fed by his sycophantic entourage, the latter day Emperor’s new clothes. What has Putin’s illegal war actually achieved? It’s strengthened NATO, increased the number of NATO troops on Russia’s doorstep, brought about large increases in defence expenditure in European NATO countries and pushed Sweden and Finland closer to membership.
The Russian army has, as the joke has it has, gone from the second strongest in the world, to the second strongest in the Ukraine. They have few reserves, their equipment is second rate and badly maintained and compares unfavourably with that supplied to the Ukrainians by the west. Their conscripts are poorly trained, poorly led and not told what they were doing. Russian armaments factories are unable to replace lost equipment because they’re reliant on parts from the west, and sanctions have cut off their supply chains.
All the Russians can do is carpet bomb civilians, which is their MO from Grozny, Georgia, Ossetia and Syria right enough, but it’s hardly an example of how to win wars and influence people. There are plenty of native Russian speakers in the Donbas and elsewhere in the Ukraine cursing Putin and his regime and explaining why they support Ukrainian independence, joining the EU and aligning with the west. They’re not neo-nazis, they’re just in favour of freedom, democracy and self determination for Ukraine.
The people you support are imperialists and war criminals. Luckily you, and those who think like you, represent a vanishingly small if unpleasant blot on the independence movement.
“The people you support are imperialists and war criminals.”
Ellis
This would be funny if wasn’t so pathetic, those you support such as the Great Satan, which has caused much of conflict that ails the world today, and is so afraid of being held to account for it mass murders across the decades, has eve threatened to invade the ICJ and sanction its members if it opens up a case on its warcrimes.
Keep on supporting the Nazi’s Ellis we know what you really are.
Facts.
We are not for putin.
And we are not for following ole nick with msm news help into oblivion
And we are not for instigating a battle war cry in such a small vulnerable non independent country as ours.
Neutrality is a good balance.
Scottish people have always been used as cannon fodder in war when appropriate. And treated badly in peace time.
Away with instigating you’re war cries trying to divide the people on this Scottish independence site.
If it is not one thing it is another, no peace sits in your heart for Scotland.
Big opportunity for Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater to step up and stop this environmentally damaging shenanigans in its tracks…
Angel Delight have started selling ready made mix in plastic tubs.
Scotland could lead the way and tell Premier Foods to get tae fuck with their society damaging new product.
Has oor nation really become so fookin dumb and lazy we canne cook or have the energy to whisk some powder into some milk.
Keep Fit and Keep Fat versions of Angel Delight. FML
James Che
“We are not for Putin”
Sure, but many here are not against Putin either, while being strongly against Ukraine.
That’s not neutrality in anyone’s book.
Regarding your belief that an Independent Scotland should be neutral, successful neutrality on the international stage requires the desire, resolve and capability to defend that neutrality.
So a successful Independent Scotland will have a military and strategic interests to defend, just like every other country. That’s if a majority of Scots want neutrality.
That’s realpolitik, James. Believers in Scottish Independence should be thinking this through now. Floating voters won’t be impressed if the Indy movement has no answers to questions like these.
You can thank Putin for that.
Dan , you have set my olfactory lobes twitching!
@ Jame Che 4.30 pm
I accept that you personally may not be James, but others in here, including skid marks on the independence movement such as “Republic of Scotland” in here and others who shill for him, certainly are for Putin.
Nobody sane buts you’re “such a small vulnerable non independent country as ours” schtick. It’s just a latter day variant of “too wee, too poor, too stupid”. Have some ambition man, even if you have no backbone.
Neutrality or otherwise is a matter for the Scots people to decide post indy, but all the indications from polling over the years shows that the vast majority of Scots are basically multilateralists, pro NATO membership and support “Atlanticism” and alignment with other western liberal democracies and the USA. Those opposed to that can rail against it all they like, but facts are facts: unilateralism, opposing NATO membership and being opposed to a basically pro-western liberal democratic outlook will be a huge vote loser.
The ones causing division are those shamefully fluffing the actions of Putin’s regime, positing moral equivalence between them and the west, and calling the USA “the Great Satan”. Giving these people the benefit of the doubt harms the independence movement, because it allows our opponents to point at such fringe nutterdom and say: “Look, these people are nutters, how can they be trusted..?”.
What on earth is “no peace sit in your heart for Scotland” even supposed to mean? Perhaps it sounded deep or meaningful in your head, but it just sounds like ill thought out and expressed gibberish.
@James Che
This scot gov won’t be taking Scotland anywhere with its integrity intact.
Scotland is being systemically exploited, asset-stripped, and sold-out – in broad-daylight and at light-speed – to a global WEF cabal, who’s fundamental aim is to reset and redefine who we are – claim ultimate ownership over us and dictate our future (signs of unprecedented systematic depravity, weakness and vulnerability).
Our dire situation may seem futile to many (if you believe what the TV/State tells you re. ‘the public can’t do sh** to make life better’), yet it presents a golden opportunity to expose such unprecedented mass deceit and treachery, and position it firmly under the public spotlight.
All they’ve got is mass coercion over our hearts and minds (e.g. ‘public has lost faith in itself’; ‘public is incapable of organising and managing itself’; ‘all nation states require external top-down management via a self-selected private corporate org’, etc.).
We don’t require anything to realise that our consciousness and ‘the truth’ sets us free (a terrifying prospect for WEF/freaks of human nature)…
Hi Rev, hey stu.
Out n about and in the New Burrell Bar with J… yeah the fear is still resident like some kinda understood evil with some.
Take your fucking masks off everyone, yer suffocating yerselves tae death.
Arbroath was braw, lots of ALBA on show.
Oh there’s Dempsey n Makepiece on the TV. Retrovision.
Learning my ABC’s and other letters.
Kingpin / keystone… remove one and the rest of em follow.
I love that I can do this.
Alex knows.
” Mr Jones is not a member of the Alba Party therefore is not subject to the disciplinary processes of party.”
” something is happening here but you don’t know what it is , do you Mr Jones ? ”
If Mr Jones was not a member then he couldn’t have been expelled . Or maybe he was * dismembered * in an Anti-Putinista Night of the Long Skean Dhus purge .
Who’s next , anyone who ever read War And Peace ?
” Are you now or have ever been a member of the Putinista Party , or attended a party where Vladimir Nabokov was referred to ? ”
Actually Andy I was just laughing at the idea of you acting as a kind of unpaid – but zealous – informer on behalf of ALBA .
Ironic indeed given that many members of ALBA joined the Party in disgust at the attempt by SNP Inc to control all * dissident * views .
Keep that up and ALBA will disappear up it’s own sense of moral purity
Since my last visit I see two new articles on the site. I am not inclined to read all of the posts but had a wee scroll through to see who was posting.
Scum no 1 (RoS) much in evidence as usual. I have stopped reading his drivel, but can I guess that there is umpteen references to The Great Satan, All Ukrainians are Nazis, Sturgeon the Betrayer of Scotland, Putin is my hero etc. I suppose posting here gives him an outlet. Better that rather than sitting on a park bench somewhere, saliva dripping down his face, as he/she/it shouts his bile, scaring women and kids passing by.
Scum no 2 (Hatuey) is conspicuous by he/she/its absence. Maybe sick, physically as well as mentally!
Gregor, the wannabee journalist, continuing to regurgitate real..ish journalists work.
The 300 year old Treaty and Constitution rearing their heads again. To me this smacks of desperation for those seeking Independence by any means. They fail to realise that Independence now would lead to the SNP/Greens in charge of everything. What a frightening prospect that is!
Independence will only come via the ballot box. Firstly there are many difficult questions that have to be answered, to which nobody in the SG is prepared to do so.
The only solution is get rid of the SNP/Greens and start afresh. This will take time but there is no other way. Airy fairy romantic notions only work with the core uneducated sheep which sums up your typical SNP/Green supporter.
I will vote for ALBA in the forthcoming elections but fear the worst for them. I had thought that I would be witnessing direct ‘attacks’ on Sturgeon/SNP but all is strangely quiet. Too quiet!
“The ones causing division are those shamefully fluffing the actions of Putin’s regime, positing moral equivalence between them and the west, and calling the USA “the Great Satan”. Giving these people the benefit of the doubt harms the independence movement”
Ellis.
Utter drivel as usual, the Great Satan opposes Scottish independence, Scotland lies at the base of the North Atlantic arc of defence, and Iceland lies at the top, with Russia flexing it muscles in Ukraine the Great Satan will be even more against an indy Scotland if that’s possible, Scotland is a first strike nation for the Great Satan, we host their nuclear warheads, and allow their loch polluting nuclear subs to berth in our port at Faslane, Christ knows what’s kept in the mountain at Coulport.
Like England the US is no real friend to Scotland, we are at best useful idiots.
@Chas 5:57pm
I am of the viewpoint that posters on here are principled Independence supporters but I may not support their politics. And we all have arguments now and again. I would say that Independence has to come via the ballot box. Sturgeon is quiet because despite what Massie says there are consequences to a dire track record. The Ferries will sink her. There is only so many times you can shred the evidence. Derek MacKay come on down. A junior operative in any organisation cannot be held responsible for any debacle.
Those popping in here arguing against the voices of scottish independent movement causing, and stirring trouble. Opposing every topic spoken and amplifying conflict are no longer very well disguised.
inconspicuous by actions no longer.
However it does highlight it does not, why they are here on wings over Scotland
To cause Division in among scottish people as a project. Prevent conversations with bombastic abuse.
The time is fast approaching that they will become irrelivent.
@Robert Hughes 5.39 pm
For the benefit of you and the other hard of thinking onlookers….he was a member of the party who was standing for election in Fife. After his comments about Putin being his hero and his abusive twitter account were exposed by the National he stepped down and left the party. Jumping before he was pushed, hence not being a member by the time members with a conscience and a functioning moral compass started proceedings to have him expelled.
I’m one of those who joined Alba as a founding member, having left the SNP a few years ago for its shameful treatment of Grouse Beater. I’m quite aware of the SNPs shortcomings. There’s no way I’m going to see fuck witted Putinistas destroy Alba from within the way the candy haired Twitler Youth hollowed out the SNP. Being associated with Putin lovers and folk calling the USA the Great Satan or similar would be electoral and political suicide. Bollocks to that!
Tannadice Boy.
Apparently Mackay is to give evidence at an up and coming inquiry, his reputation is in tatters over another matter but he’s not happy at Sturgeon the betrayer of Scots throwing him under the bus on the disgraceful ferries fiasco that’s costing Scottish taxpayers millions extra and leaving islanders high and dry.
The three mentioned in the chapter below this, need to appear at the inquiry as well. Though the last time one of them appeared at an inquiry (Sturgeon) she refused to answer multiple questions, did not provide asked for documents, or they were heavily redacted, had the COPFS use its legal powers to obfuscate, and the chair of the inquiry was blatantly bias if you ask me.
“He says in fact he was fourth in the pecking order around these ferry orders, as junior transport minister — the most junior of those dealing with them. He was behind the main players: Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney and Keith Brown.
“Anyone who knows anything about the way these processes work knows something of this size could never have happened without prior approval at the highest levels.”
Swinney should be know as the Teflon Don as nothing sticks on him, dodging two VONC’s due to the Greens. If only this fiasco could bring Sturgeon down, but I doubt it will.
@Putin’s Poodle 6.14 pm
So tell us, is the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in the pay of the Great Satan then…? Seems like he’s just called for an independent investigation into alleged killings of civilians in Bucha – the town near Kyiv where bodies were found discarded on a road.
The United Nations Human Rights Office also just raised the possibility that Russia had committed war crimes in Ukraine:
“What is known to date clearly raises serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes and grave violations of international humanitarian law,…”
Looks like the noose is tightening around your mate Vladimir…..
I couldn’t give a fuck about John Jones , Hillary Jones or Casey Jones ; but having self-righteous , conceited pricks like you in it is a guarantee ALBA will quickly morph into an SNP Clone , totally incapable of taking a position on ANYTHING contrary to prevailing received * Liberal * opinion , shunning anything remotely radical/original in favour of brain-numbing predictability and bullshit bogus * consensus * idolatry
@Republicofscotland 7:18pm
We have Swinney bagged as a consequence of his Mary Poppins posts in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on named person. He is not the worry. Sturgeon with her 250 million legal battalion hastily constructed to save her and nothing else is a worry. That’s a lot of firepower. But if the Ferries don’t sink her then the one billion pound Covid disportinate decision before Christmas will. We have to be patient. Principled Independence supporters are up against here. There will be no progress on Independence until she has gone. And now it is probably 10 to 20 years away such is the damage that has been done.
@ Robert Hughes 7.49 pm
With luck the party will avoid folk without moral compasses like you though, eh Robert?
Alba is nowt like the SNP, and it never will be thanks to folk like me and other mainstream independence supporters and ordinary Scots who stand with the Ukraine. We’ll ensure folk fluffing war criminals and spouting conspiracy theory bullshit, like some of the skid marks on the movement posting BTL here, know they and their opinions aren’t welcome in the ranks.
Guterres is a Bilderberger and a participant of the (WEF) World Economic Forum. As for warcrimes, Blinkin has got his ICC onto it of which wrote Tony Cartalucci in 2019 neither “international nor a legitimate court, but is most certainly criminal. It is an institutionalized tool – one of many – used by Western corporate-financier interests to coerce and control nations across the developing world.
This route is to be expected from the Great Satan, the Nazi’s that Nato has been backing and funding since the 2014 coup of Ukraine, are almost spent, even with the West flooding Ukraine with weapons, the latest is 1960’s Eastern European weapons and vehicles,(obsolete)being sent, the reason being that it takes less time to train the Nazi’s on these vehicles and weapons as they are somewhat familiar and they more often than not understand the instructions.
The ICC is a Western tool used to convict mainly African warlords and the occasional Eastern European dictator, the likes of Bush or Blair will never set foot in it and be tried as the war criminals they are.
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission in Malaysia has already found Blair and Bush guilty of war crimes, along with Nato, the war criminals remain at large.
As for war crimes in Ukraine, its part and parcel of Nazi nature.
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/31/ukrainian-journalist-finds-charred-remains-alleged-war-crime-filmed/
airdrieforindependence.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/for-one-night-only-grousebeater/?fbclid=IwAR0m8qnwSPKqUd0_lyvThYDRMz7NU_fTw2zJQuEhD1iTMwn3gMWFYpphnz4
If Alba doesn’t make a point of respecting independent critical thinkers, and tolerating what might elsewhere be viewed as ‘dissent’, then it’ll go the same way as the SNP.
http://www.barrheadboy.com/through-a-scottish-prism-3-04-22/?fbclid=IwAR0Jf-v6wNu4SuRdjZhmdwx8l4GMeDlCrSuXQApAeLbRwatKfmY89l6L538
Robert Hughes Keep your stupid comments to yourself ALBA is & won’t be anything like the Snp / a lot of good X Snp people have joined ALBA that’s those that see through Mrs Murrell’s bullshit / M Russell should have got the gist of disgruntlement from us Independenistas on Sat at Arbroath
@ Ian Brotherhood 8.41 pm
If Alba is seen as a haven for people opining that “Putin is their hero”, or RoS’ favourite “the Ukrainians had it coming” they have as much chance of gaining power as RISE and the SSP. Alba is nowt like the SNP, as anyone with experience of both will attest.
Anyone saying otherwise obviously has no direct experience, or just has an agenda. Which is it in your case Ian?
I’m quite happy with principled agreement in the party, but tolerating people inside it espousing support for Putin isn’t something I’m prepared to put up with, nor are others I’ve spoken to in my branch. It’s a political party, not a sophomoric debating club for fringe nutters to vent their woo-woo about “the Great Satan” and how the west is no better than Putin or Xi Xinping.
http://www.facebook.com/messenger_media?thread_id=100003777983304&attachment_id=1076222986273146&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAB56B5QuGIDzNxl_7vb4HuKiN
Watch with the comments ave goat ah big chopper
Hmmm…
Should Alba ‘Founder Members’ who are uneasy with the ‘Pray For Ukraine/Putin=Satan’ narrative now return their badges?
I’m now getting a sense of how it must’ve felt to be a Stalin-critical Labour member 80 years ago, when Orwell was writing Animal Farm.
Ruby at 10:28 am
Not knowing all the complainers but accepting the allegation at face value, that the perjury investigation concerns evidence given in court that was contradicted in the inquiry, I’d say copfs and daily record just commited a crime for which others have been jailed.
Could get interesting if the principles behind a decision that was upheld by two appeal courts and 8(?) judges are now applied to all – including the investigating officers!
Ian B
Im a founder member of ALBA & won’t be returning my badge Snp are frightened of Alba & these stories are just that stories
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2022/03/29/sara-salyers-paper-in-full/?fbclid=IwAR3BMWWI7fB8Ug3rLRQ-7tw4oncy_e6OkkiN3J1LCuYyUPZHS8deycHwhgA
I spoke to Stuart Hosie MP on Sat and he doesn’t acknowledge the Claim of Right therefore our Scottish Sovereignty
@RonnieAnderson –
I have a ‘Founder Member’ badge too, and I won’t be sending that back to anyone either.
Likewise, I won’t be turning into a nodding dog for Alex Salmond, or anyone else – unthinking New Labour-style ‘obedience’ has brought the independence movement to this current mess, and we have to learn from that.
It’s not ‘pragmatic’ to support someone after it becomes obvious that they’ve deceived you. It’s just daft.
‘Once bitten’ an aw that jazz…
🙁
@ Ronnie at 9.51pm
Would like to have said hello to you on Saturday but BDtt and myself couldn’t locate you at that point.
Good to have put that question to Mr Hosie and get that answer.
I was considering asking if the blond haired human riding pillion with him was a man or a woman! 🙂
But to be honest what’s the point as his Party won’t be getting me or my mates’ votes again anytime soon.
That goes for you local SNP Councillors…
Dan the blond was Hosies wife & she’s standing for the Snp in Dundee cooncil elections
Ian B neither of use are daft & won’t put up with people trying to push their shite in Alba
@ronnie –
As soon as a party – any party – starts having trouble with interlopers, plants, spooks etc, that’s when it knows it’s doing something right.
😉
Ronnie at 10.16pm
Now you and I may both know that, but it seems everyone in the SNP and Greens struggles with defining the sex of a human these days, so thought it may have been good to establish where they stood on such matters what with them wanting to potentially garner votes from the electorate.
After all…
https://gettr.com/post/p13c47r8051
I am trying to decide whom has stirred up the most abuse on just about every topic encountered on here and still going strong.
Whom has been the most derogatory to women on this site,
While verbally abusive to men.
Everyone is at different stages of learning what they need to know, slapping their faces with verbal abuse while learning is a very quick way of putting people off proceeding any further.
Alba is alright and the best way forward for us right now.
But it really is a shame that being a founder does not necessarily mean all the foundations are sound.
One brick is acting like a boulder, and bulldozing everything and everyone in its path.
Allowing no free thought or will is what has caused the collaspe of the snp.
Just a thought.
@Dan 10:40pm
I haven’t seen anybody on my doorstep re the local elections, gone are the days when you could go to a public meeting and assess the candidates. It’s all done on social media apparently great if you are on it. Algorithms don’t work face to face. I will definitely vote for anybody but the SNP candidate that dropped a leaflet through my door stating that they will build more Council houses in my temporary ward than they have done Nationally for 15 years. That’s what we are up against. Lies and hyperbole. The SNP way. I don’t know who I will vote for. Nobody wants my vote.My wife will vote for the protection of women’s rights. I think I will support her.
If anyone was going to vote Labour for the sake of building new houses then remember
their last 5 year term seen 6 council houses joining the sector.
If you are going to vote Tory you must be insane or filthy rich and looking for the poor to die.
Lib Dems well they will be any any part of the 2 parties above for a bribe.
Vote, don’t spoil papers as your words are just binned regardless.
Can I ask the founder members of ALBA apart from andy pandy if they are content that there was NO MENTION of a plebiscite election at the convention either by Alex or anyone else , and were they happy that Neale Hanvey more or less asked the members present not to vote for Sara Salyers proposal , apparently the members present were fully supportive and enthused by Sara’s presentation but were encouraged not to vote for it , that it MAY be brought up again at some future convention
This was revealed by someone who was present at the convention and was unenthused at the TAME messages coming from the speakers
https://archive.ph/AD8KY#selection-1111.0-1119.201
“A legal source said: “To proceed against anyone for the common law crime of perjury, prosecutors must be satisfied there is proof beyond reasonable doubt that false evidence, which was known to be false, was given by a witness.
“The independent prosecutor would need to consider not only the evidential foundation supporting an allegation of having given perjured evidence, but also the wider public interest in mounting a prosecution.
“The fact that a jury did not accept a complainer’s evidence amounted to proof beyond reasonable doubt that a crime was committed against them does not mean that any complainer gave perjured evidence.”
Who decides what is in the public interest?
“As is standard practice in any case regarding politicians, this will be dealt with by a procurator fiscal and independent Crown counsel without the involvement of the law officers.”
I didn’t know that. Anyone know why?
Jist as we aw start having tae pay higher prices for oor leccy…
Scots in new energy “crisis” shocker caused by havin too much fookin leccy!
Thank goodness oor southern neighbours are kind enough to take oor surplus away so we don’t all get frazzled or electrocuted.
https://extranet.nationalgrid.com/RealTime
“Can I ask the founder members of ALBA apart from andy pandy if they are content that there was NO MENTION of a plebiscite election at the convention either by Alex or anyone else ”
Twathatr @2.09am.
Is that right, I’m pretty surprised by that, for my mind that’s our only real way out of this union.
twathater says:
4 April, 2022 at 2:09 am
Can I ask the founder members of ALBA apart from andy pandy if they are content that there was NO MENTION of a plebiscite election at the convention either by Alex or anyone else…
I cannot allay your concerns twathater, I wish I could. But I do believe ALBA is firmly behind the Constitutional principle.
There is also this…
https://twitter.com/DavidDhenry/status/1510591375389118468
This looks like it could be the other component of a Constitutional pincer movement from the Scottish Sovereignty Research Group. If it says what I think it’s going to, then it’s more constitutional dynamite.
I’ve got my ALBA badge too, but I’m also aware the Council Elections are not the best platform for Constitutional Revolutions,and I’m aware too, ALBA’s Wee Blue Book needs it’s time in the limelight.
I’m not making excuses for anybody, maybe ALBA should indeed be charging down the Constitutional route with pitchforks and firebrands held above. However I have long been a fan of Scotland’s Constitutional Sovereignty, but it needs to be done right. We may not get a second chance.
Springing a TKO on the Treaty of Union floats my boat any day of the week, but I still recognise such a victory might be undone if it’s perceived by too many Scots to be “cheating” our way out the Union without a democratic mandate. That isn’t true, but that’s how it will be spun by the propagandists.
In my opinion, the Constitutional route is “the” route to victory and Independence, but a big part in making that initiative successful is sowing the right seeds in the mind of the people and giving it just a little time to take root and mature. It should have been started a long time ago, but we are where we are.
I also have another notion in my head that a Constitutional Initiative and campaign will in theory bypass Westminster MP’s and the devolved Assembly of Holyrood, – and bypass completely. And if that happens, when that happens, then ALBA will be out in the cold without any “official” political infrastructure, probably no access to TV, no party political broadcasts or seats on debate panels, and Scotland will have no foothold inside the UK political system except through the complicit SNP.
I believe ALBA can be trusted, but the whole ediface of British Unionism, including Sturgeon’s SNP, are itching to crush ALBA, so for now, ALBA cannot afford to put a foot wrong. It has to be cagey as hell for now.
That’s my reading of where we stand.
Roll with ALBA, by all means keep them held to account, but meantime, do everything you can to spread the word from Sara Salyers and the Scottish Constitutional Research Group.
James Che 12:00 am
I understand that the SNP has collapsed on Wings.
But out in the real world, I am not so sure. SNP obituaries seem a wee bittie premature to me.
Let’s re-evaluate the situation on 6th May. Meantime, keep pushing the Alba message.
Extract from Craig Murray’s take on Ukraine. (My bold)
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/04/each-of-us-is-striving-to-process-the-truth-of-the-disaster-in-ukraine/
Ruby 8.41
If it is standard practice to involve independent Crown Counsel in criminal cases involving politicians, why was this not done in the prosecution of Alex Salmond I wonder.
Since when have Special Advisors or Civil Servants become ‘politicians’ is another interesting thought.
@ John Main: “…SNP obituaries ..a bit premature”.
Much as I hate to accept this is the case, I fear you are right. How I wish it weren’t so.
So many things could be put right if only the party were cleansed and the best brains currently in it were able to deal with things like the ferries. Such a simple solution is available to increase and improve communications between the islands, and also between Scotland and Ireland and Europe. So sad for us all that these decisions are being made by the Westminster civil service rather than by our people.
Ian B, thanks for that!
A wee wave to Ronnie and my Prickly Pal!
Depending on your own ‘standpoint’, this may be a useful supplement to the Craig Murray article.
https://standpointzero.com/2022/04/04/the-bucha-massacre/
Dear Rev, if you are out there may I request that you remove that awful photo on GETTR- the adoration of the madonna styled one – it is making distinctly queasy.
Thank you.
Breeks.
Having been at the Alba stall and obtained my wee blue book, and signed by the man himself,
i related this very topic of constitutional debates.
Alba seem to be very aware of the constitutional issues.
Merganser says:
4 April, 2022 at 11:01 am
Ruby 8.41
If it is standard practice to involve independent Crown Counsel in criminal cases involving politicians, why was this not done in the prosecution of Alex Salmond I wonder.
Since when have Special Advisors or Civil Servants become ‘politicians’ is another interesting thought.
I don’t think Alex Salmond was a politician at the time of the trial.
Perhaps reason for timing of trial?
Good question about civil servants.
I wonder if the person who thinks she is the one suspected of perjury has already employed a lawyer and he/she is the one who has written the passage in ‘The Times’ about perjury?
Will the argument be it’s not in the public interest to proceed with a trial?
Ruby at 1.43
It would be a brave person who would tell Alex he had stopped being a politician I think.
Perhaps it is because he is ‘involved’ in this case as a complainant there is a need for independent counsel
I dont think it will take long for the snp to collaspe.
All it takes is for their puppet masters to no longer need idiots with no spine,
And the paid for msm will do the rest,
One day all of a sudden In a flash they will be gone.
Those left with the snp addiction will try come to sights like this which they tried subduing.
Not only will they be left with an addiction but they will politically homeless.
Very little of the public in reality agree with the modern version snp or greens woke politics in Scotland.
Ruby,
Perhaps the question could be approached from a different angle.
Does the british crown council have any say over Scots law
The treaty of the union pacifically states that Scots law is to remain separate from English law.
The crown cannot oversee Scots law with any legal jurisdition
Correction, Read : Jurisdiction.
https://gettr.com/post/p132qmg11b2
This was in West Kirk pub in AYR.
My Pal showed me it yesterday b4 footie. LMAO
Ian Brotherhood thanks for the exert of Craigs blog a man that the SNP hierarchy along with Alex really fear they managed to jail one their main target was too smart for them Craigs imprisonment was just pure spite .
Anyone who believes we are being told the truth about Ukraine is blinkered by the overwhelming propaganda being used to cover this whole affair, Biden his family and the CIAs involvement is being systematically hidden from view and discussion .
Right now there are 3 obvious government plants lurking on this site if there wasnt the Security Service wouldnt be doing their jobs so it would save folks a lot of time if they didn’t interact with them just scroll past .
Thanks for the response Breeks , and to an extent I agree with your assessment, I agree that the constitutional issue is mahoosive,I have agreed with your dissection and elaboration on the corrupt deviant from day 1 , I have read , enjoyed and supported your argument from day 1 , your posts on Barrhead boy illuminated and educated people who were unaware of the power WE REALLY HAVE
BUT my frustration is overwhelming when I think that the likes of yourself , Sara Salyers , Lorna Campbell , Lorncal , Gayle Miller , Clootie , Daisy Walker ,James Che and many others have been DESPERATELY trying to get this information widespread to educate and inform the PEOPLE what their sovereignty entails and how it can be used to HOLD THESE BAST ARDS TO ACCOUNT , whilst all the while oor politicians of all stripes avoid ANY mention of the TOU , AOU or the Claim of Rights
THAT is why I have lost ANY faith in JC , SHE has deserted her country and people by remaining in the current corrupt reviled snp where she has been abused and denigrated by perverts and deviants whose abuse is ignored so therefore condoned by the head deviant ,whilst all the while JC could have found REVENGE against those hoards of lunatics by publicly and vociferously promoting the constitutional argument and pursuing it through the Scottish courts , the ECJ and the UN
JUST THINK how sweet that revenge would have been by being THE PERSON not sturgeon , to go down in the history books as the one who FOUGHT and WON Scotland’s independence
It is quite apparent by now that Sturgeon is leading a coterie of morally corrupt global technocrats, intent on destroying Scotland from the inside via neoliberal economics and the promotion of transgender and transhuman ideology.
However, this phenomenon is by no means unique to Scotland. Nearly all Western democracies are now under the control of a clique who are beholden to supranational forces and global organisations determined to undermine national sovereignty and individual liberty.
It is for this reason that Sturgeon will never lead Scotland to independence. She is caught in the dichotomy of being elected on a platform of Scottish independence but actively engaged with those forces which seek to subdue national sovereignty. She can only promise and never deliver.
Meanwhile, the populace is pushed ever deeper into poverty, society is debased and degraded, there is little to no care for the environment, and councils are unable to provide even the most basic of amenities and services.
There is also a misconception pertinent to the globalists that somehow technology will be the saviour of humanity. This is a fallacy. Technology does not make us more humane; on the contrary, it has the propensity to make us more barbaric.
Why bark yourself (Westminster) when you have Scottish dogs (SNP MPs) to do it for you, Smith and Stewart are well know unionist actors.
“THE UK Government is being urged by the SNP to do more to support the International Criminal Court’s investigations into war crimes being committed by Russia in Ukraine.
“Alyn Smith, the SNP foreign affairs spokesperson, wrote to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss encouraging her to provide further financial support to the court to back its work documenting, investigating and prosecuting war crime accusations.
In the communication, Smith writes that “we may even conclude that genocide is being committed against the people of Ukraine” – making the SNP the first party in the UK to make this suggestion publicly.”
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20044338.ukraine-snp-become-first-uk-party-suggest-russia-committing-genocide%2F
BBC Scotland, right now, is slandering Scots in primetime with the RACISM charge.
– some lassie got her hair slagged off at school; secondary school was a bearpit I remember, for everyone
– there is a quite funny joke about stevie wonder
– some asian shopkeeper got some shit, but does he have a £3 minimum charge for debit cards
– aamer anwers kicking gets prominence; mouthy students in those days would get a kicking off the cops anyway – “what’s your point, caller?!”
the actually nasty stuff probably comes from “football supporters” (of one particular club, we must not name)
– congo woman complaining about racism; why not go back to your own country, to be with your own people, and non-racist. Oh wait – inter tribal genocide is the national sport there; the ebil scots racist bastards made you rector of edinburgh uni – does she not realise she is culturally appropriating the white man world, as africa does not have universities?
episode 2 will cover – Kriss Donald and Baldy Shahid, the muslim conquest, the arab slave trade, dahomey, racial crime statistics in the US, david livingstone
The problem with the Scots is the lack of a national consciousness, a knowledge of one’s own identity, pride in themselves.
– this self flagellation is another form of the cringe.
Meanwhile Hungary re-elects Putin’s Poodle Orban. You know one of EU’s closet Fascists and Racists. I think being under Russian Occupation for several decades has clearly damaged their brains. No wonder he and Putin are on friendly terms. Genocide doesn’t even make them blink and it doesn’t make the so called Western Democracies blink either.
The Ukraine is truly fucked. We will give them Soviet era weaponry because they can erm use it. You know the stuff the Russians had in abundance that just got destroyed in the last 5 weeks. The Western Politicians and Media take us for right idiots. Give the Ukrainians weapons to defend themselves against Genocide that the Russians will destroy with numbers alone. Give me a break!
Putin’s poodles must be laughing at the response of the pathetic response of the so called Western Democracies.
If we ever get another Referendum we are on our own again. It will be another rigged Referendum and we will get nothing but kind words from the allies of greedy Corporate Fascism.
The Western Corporate Fascists want Putin to win so they can ramp up exorbitant Defense Budgets. Lets not let Genocide get in the way of Mega Profits.
Confused @ 8:32 pm
“BBC Scotland, right now, is slandering Scots in primetime with the RACISM charge.”
Racism in Scotland is not well understood; the two main racism ‘issues’ affecting Scots are:
1. Colonialism, which always involves prejudice and racism levelled against the oppressed subordinate indigenous native (i.e. Scottish) people and in particular their language and culture, and which may also develop into fascism, as reflecting a cultural and ethnic division of labour due to the imposition, prioritisation and domination of Anglophone elite institutionalised control, and;
2. Appropriated Racial Oppression, in which colonialism inspired racism is internalized by the oppressed (Scottish) people who, due to their colonial domination and development of a ‘colonial mindset’, view their subordination, oppression, exploitation and lack of opportunity as deserved, which it is not.
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2021/08/15/determinants-of-independence-ethnicity/
Well, I think I agree with you Alf … “obviously” that’s exactly what I was sayin …
The BBC is simply “at it”, it bangs this drum – “shame the Scots” every so often, and people need to be aware. The presenter, herself a mixed race girl, almost torpedoes her own argument by saying she never experienced much racism growing up in Greenock. The acceptable prejudices – anti catholic, anti working class, anti native – are never acknowledged.
Chomsky put it that when “the celtic periphery was subdued” the Empire moves into a higher gear; the Scots have to take the credit and some of the blame for this, but it is the blame of the press-ganged sailor. Did the poor of Glasgow own shares in the slave ships?
The whole “anti racism” virtue signalling is just window dressing which supports the status quo; a few years ago the caribbean countries were trying to put together a “class action” slavery reparations claim against the UK, based on historical records (- Scots should do similar). Now – this is something very, absolutely, just, but it gets sidelined (by coincidence there was a fire in the national archives around the same time!) – so instead the media run with moral panics about something trivial on social media, “someone said a bad word”. Or you get the bizarre – sporting millionaires “claiming oppression”.
Decolonise your mind, with a great soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9U1zc8ys-Q
https://twitter.com/theSNP/status/1511032230012928006
Holy cow. I mean, fuckitty fk.
Did I really just watch somebody seeing how far they could throw a mannequin dressed as a Tory in a 21st century Party Political Broadcast? SNP appealing to the intellectuals now? I am stunned. Genuinely stunned. Incredulous. Scotland is so utterly fkd under these imbeciles.
I thought for a while that you’d really have to out-do yourselves to make worse party political broadcast than Nicola Sturgeon’s dystopian homage to Orwell’s 1984, but credit where it’s due, they’ve possibly done it with an equally dystopian homage to Monty Python’s 1972.
Given that it’s SNP, I’m even wondering if Betty was Eric Idle in a frock.
Breeks @ 5.58
And the prize for outstanding achievement in the fields of Political Inanity , Intellectual Vacuity and Unintentional Hilarity goes to …………..Bog Standard Productions in Association with NSNP/Fiasco Unlimited .
Here to accept the prize on their behalf are comedy duo Clown Prince Pee Wee Wishart of ” Westminster Paradise ” fame and Ian * Mandela * Blackfordcortina
Brilliant post/s Confused .
* Racism * is the latest hair-shirt we Scots are being compelled to wear
* Misogny * the ball-crushing * Jock * strap
* Transphobia * the beyond redemption Original Sin
World Economic Forum: Global Agenda: What’s next for bitcoin and crypto? The trends to watch in 2022:
Central banks go digital:
“State-issued digital coins will begin to compete with cryptocurrencies in 2022, as more nations trial their own central bank digital currencies – or CBDCs –
“Central banks around the world are bowing to the reality that digital payments are becoming the norm,” he said.
“Maintaining the relevance of central bank money in retail transactions necessitates the creation of digital versions of their currencies.”…”:
https://archive.ph/EuWWc
BBC (05/04/2022): ‘Cryptocurrency: UK Treasury to regulate some stablecoins’:
“Regulators are racing to draw up rules to manage cryptocurrencies amid concern that their growing popularity could threaten established financial systems…”:
https://archive.ph/6x5Uo
OFSTED (04/04/2022): Education recovery in schools: spring 2022:
The picture overall:
“…the pandemic continued to hinder pupils’ learning and personal development.
The pandemic has also continued to affect pupils’ knowledge and skills, either because content had not been taught when schools were partially closed or because pupils did not learn well remotely.
Some schools also reported a decline in pupils taking certain subjects for GCSE and A level, including triple science and English Baccalaureate subjects….
…staff absence due to COVID-19 had been an issue and was made more difficult by the challenge of recruiting supply teachers…
Schools have faced external barriers, such as delays accessing external services, particularly in relation to mental health. Special schools have been especially challenged by this…
COVID-related anxiety among parents continued to be a challenge for some school leaders this term.
…compared with the national lockdowns, fewer schools were offering comprehensive remote learning for small numbers of pupils who were not at school.
Our December briefing reported that pupils’ subject-specific knowledge and skills continued to be affected by the pandemic. This was either because content had not been taught when schools were partially closed or because pupils did not learn well remotely.
In January 2022, school leaders described similar gaps in:
• mathematics
• phonics
• reading
• writing stamina and handwriting
• languages, particularly in pupils’ speaking and listening skills
• physical education…
Leaders tended to mention subjects where the knowledge that was missing was essential for pupils to progress in the subject. This does not mean that other subjects, such as geography and history, have not been impacted…”:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-recovery-in-schools-spring-2022/education-recovery-in-schools-spring-2022
Fake News OFSTED:
Raising standards, improving lives: Ofsted’s strategic plan:
https://archive.ph/eINbm
https://archive.ph/WsAc9
Trans people can be excluded from single-sex services if ‘justifiable’, says EHRC
Stonewall not happy!
“India Willougby
Anyone ever tries to stoop me using the loo or changing room I will be peeing/stripping off in full view of everyone.
Trans are the REAL suffragettes”
‘Sash
I don’t usually poo in public but I’ll gladly shit on the floor of anyone using this’
robbo says:
4 April, 2022 at 3:31 pm
This was in West Kirk pub in AYR.
My Pal showed me it yesterday b4 footie. LMAO
Each time I opened that video my browser crashed. The guy in the golden hot pants was just too much for Firefox’
“India Willougby
Anyone ever tries to stoop me using the loo or changing room I will be peeing/stripping off in full view of everyone.”
Very macho statement!
If as is claimed transwomen are women then why would stripping off in full view of everyone be a threat? Is this person saying they will expose themselves in the ladies changing room? Women are free to strip off in full view of everyone.
If “transwomen are women” then they are free to expose themselves in the women’s changing rooms and that is a problem.
This fantasy of ‘transwomen being women’ could be coming to an end.
Have we had any comment from She/Her Sturgeon re EHRC ruling?
Is everything on hold until after the May elections?
Have the police suspended all their enquiries until then?
BBC (05/04/2022): ‘Stena Line: Fishguard route suspended as ship plugs P&O gap’:
“Stena Line has cancelled all crossings between Fishguard, Pembrokeshire and Rosslare, Republic of Ireland until 12 April.
It has moved a ship to Northern Ireland following concerns food supplies could be affected by the P&O crisis…”:
https://archive.ph/W8KCJ
World Economic Forum: Partners:
Stena:
https://archive.ph/Br1Vf
World Economic Forum: Partners:
DP World (P&O):
https://archive.ph/SPF4w
robbo says:
4 April, 2022 at 3:31 pm
This was in West Kirk pub in AYR.
My Pal showed me it yesterday b4 footie. LMAO
Shades of Monty Python’s “The Lumberjack Song”, assuming it hasn’t been banned yet.
That vid would have been shot on 31st March, “Trans Day of Visibility”, which is when lots of ugly men in drag mince around in public and try to find someone to be transphobic to them so they can sue for the “trauma” suffered.
J D Wetherspoon’s [an obvious Citadel Of Evil to woke evangelicals as its owner is a Brexiteer] and other chain pubs coach their staff not to take the bait. Some workplaces make the 31st March a fancy dress day for charity to stop any staff members considering taking part in this nonsense (doubtless with an ulterior motive) by denying them the attention they crave.
I hear that Yankee Steel is going towards building Russian Tanks. Lets not let genocide get in the way of Mega Profits.
I wonder what the Bwitish Tories might be selling the Russkies now. I know those sods will be selling them something. They cant help themselves.
Sanctions! What Sanctions exactly? Effin Joke!
I really dont know what Putin’s Poodles are whingeing about.
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It looks like my Wokist SNP Cllr and pal of Blackman and Roddick isn’t standing again. I am cheered.
UK Green Book: Vaccination Ethics:
“For consent to immunisation to the valid, it must be given freely, voluntarily and without coercion by an appropriately informed person Healthcare professionals (or other non-registered healthcare workers) who do not respect these principles may be liable to legal action….”:
ONS: Covid-19 Infection Survey (23/12/2021): Characteristics related to having an Omicron compatible result in those who test positive for COVID-19:
Estimated likelihood of testing positive for COVID-19 with an Omicron probable result (odds ratio):
Not vaccinated: 1
1 Dose: 1.23
2 Dose: 2.50
3 Dose: 6.05
IrishTimes (12/01/2022): ‘Repeated boosters of existing Covid vaccines is not a sustainable strategy, WHO warns’:
“A vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable…”:
https://archive.ph/aUMqO
BBC (05/04/2022): ‘Record number of patients facing long waits in Scotland’s A&Es’:
“Doctors have said hundreds of patients have died due to hospital delays.
Health boards point to record numbers of patients being treated for Covid along with staff shortages as putting unprecedented pressure on services.”:
https://archive.ph/eWWFX
Guardian (03/12/2020): ‘Democrats took a risk to push mail-in voting. It paid off’:
“When America began shutting down this spring because of the Covid-19 pandemic, it transformed the already high-stakes 2020 race…”:
https://archive.ph/txRhO
Guardian (29/03/2022): ‘Progressives push Biden to act with Democrats’ midterm hopes in balance’:
“Progressives warn that, if Biden does not start signing more executive orders, Democrats’ failure to follow through on many of their campaign promises will result in severely depressed voter turnout among their supporters in November, probably allowing Republicans to regain control of the House and the Senate…”:
https://archive.ph/Z2BT2
BBC (05/04/2022): ‘Number of postal voters in Scotland increases by 38%’:
“…the sharp rise was “most likely driven by the Covid pandemic”….”:
https://archive.ph/S2HTx
Mark Boyle says:
5 April, 2022 at 11:23 am
robbo says:
4 April, 2022 at 3:31 pm
Aye probably richt. I don’t think he would have risked that on Sat the 2nd in Ayr . It was full o race goers and I think he may have got a bit more than “tell me you’re having a laugh ” comment from a couple o regulars in the corner.
“I hear that Yankee Steel is going towards building Russian Tanks. Lets not let genocide get in the way of Mega Profits.”
Clavie Cheil..By genocide do you mean the eight years that the Ukrainian Nazi’s have been shelling with (cluster weapons illegal) schools, hospitals and residential areas of the Donbas, killing women and children.
Or do you mean the Bucha event, in which Russian forces departed prior to Ukrainian forces murdering civilians collaborating with Russian forces and blaming it on Russian forces.
The mayor of Bucha said.
” Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk declared his city liberated “from Russian orcs [sic]” and called it a major victory for Ukrainian defenders.
All Russian troops withdrew from the city on the previous day, both Moscow and media covering the conflict reported. The mayor made no mention of any purported Russian war crimes in his celebratory speech.”
Ukrainian Nazi’s asking if its okay to kill people without a blue armband, Ukrainian forces wear a blue arm band. He’s told “heal Yeah”
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1510712264726396944
And there’s this.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/
A mis-understood topic and advisory not to be read by those wishing to retain inner blindness of the mind.
This topic effects yours and everyone else’ food supply, your water supply. The enviroment and industry in not just Scotland but the world.
Q. Are weather patterns artificially manufactured or just natural climate change.?
Atmosphere seeding was discovered over 50 years ago.
And has been used to produce selected weather patterns around the world by governments With the knowledge and funding.
Q. Who is amply funding this unnatural climate change?
This may be construed for the good of countries.
Q. What if it is used to deplete a countries resources or create floods in one area, such as iIndia, while implementing a scorched earth policy in another such as Australia or parts of America, as a weapon.?
Q. What if changing one area of natural cloud atmosphere? depletes a alternative area of their natural resources of weather patterns.
or creates deliberate weather ramifications for food an water supplies, or to monopolise a need for heating energy prices in colder climates.
It is a experiment without permission after all.
It started it experimental stage in war torn Britain and America.
Now it is hard to judge what such a long term explosive experiment has done or contributed to our climate change in the last fifty years,
It has to hold a dangerous parallel to the industrial age in contribution to changing the world climate without transparency. Without permission of countries
Atmosphere seeding or weather modification is easily researched and no longer on a conspiracy theory list by governments.
However it says little about side effects, but only expels the rhetoric of good virtues.
However we have witnessed extreme climatic weather changes around the world in the last 50 or 60 years.
Questions need to asked seriously, on how much of these long term experiments are causing and contributing to our modern day climate change that has speeded up so rapidly.
Without oversight it will lead to controll of peoples daily lifes, food control , water supply prices and rationing.
@Robert Hughes
‘It’s not dark yet but it’s gettin’ there’
‘something is happening here but you don’t know what it is’
We see you, Robert Hughes, you Dylanista you.
Don’t try to deny it, posting all that Zimmerman stuff. Well, we can all play that game, not giving a moment’s thought to the effect it might have on the impressionable.
‘Not much happenin’ here’ so take a closer look at what Dylan might think of Scotland’s embarrassing recent past: it’s as if he warned us decades in advance: –
Crown Prosecutions
‘How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game’
Scotgov
‘Oh, princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
They’re all drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made’
AS fightback
‘I couldn’t believe after all these years
You didn’t know me any better than that
Sweet lady’
The People of Scotland
‘Freedom, just around the corner for you
But with truth so far off, what good will it do?’
Indy 2
‘So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late’
Inquiries
‘You hurt the ones that I love best
And cover up the truth with lies’
The judiciary
‘Ring them bells for the chosen few
Who will judge the many when the game is through’
2014: L1/2 = WM; L3 = UK; L4 = Indy
‘Gentlemen, he said I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes
I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning either get ready for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards’
Alf & James
‘Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?’
The cover-up
‘They don’t believe in mercy
Judgment on them is something that you’ll never see’
On Sturgeon diplomacy
‘Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth
Blowing down the back roads headin’ south’
FM
‘Even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked’
Corruption
‘Yeah, from the stage they’ll be tryin’ to get water outta rocks
A whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say thanks
They like to take all this money from sin
Build big universities to study in
Sing “Amazing Grace” all the way to the Swiss banks’
Woke
‘You don’t need a weatherman
To know which way the wind blows’
Energy
‘The buying power of the proletariat’s gone down
Money’s getting shallow and weak’
Globalisation
‘But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is’
Ferries
‘There’s no success like failure and failures no success at all’
Post Indy 1 campaigners
‘But my heart is not weary, it’s light and it’s free
I’ve got nothing but affection for all those who sailed with me’
Scotland wakens up
‘I been double-crossed now
For the very last time and now I’m finally free’
@Republicofscotland 5 April, 2022 at 1:46 pm
Hey Republic
Why don’t you use this site to crowdfund a “Kill A Ukrainian Nazi” appeal?
You may as well if you no longer have anything useful to contribute in support of Scots Indy.
30 days to go until the elections on 5 May. That’s an easy 30 warped and twisted posts from you, each one chipping away at support for Alba, the SNP, and the wider Indy cause.
Tell you what though, Republic. Why not use some of these posts to explain why an Independent Scotland will fare best within the rebuilding Russian Empire? Hearts & minds, Republic, that’s what it’s all about.
You’ve obviously spent a lifetime lamenting the freedom and democracy of the former Soviet satellite states. Who better than you to persuade us Scots of what we stand to gain from absorption into your sacred Holy Mother Russia?
What was it Stalin said? One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic? Fess up Republic, I bet you have that on your wall, done in needlepoint, just below the venerated icon of Uncle Joe himself.
@gregs 5 April, 2022 at 12:27 pm
“severely depressed voter”
Stop posting your spam pish then Gregs.
Find something positive, uplifting and inspiring to post in support of Scots Indy and/or Alba instead.
Ebok @ 2.45
Ah ha ! A fellow Zimmer ( unframed )
Yip , you can always find an apt lyric from ol Bobby D .
Excellent examples there Señor ( another BD song title , as you no doubt recognise 🙂
Putin’s Poodles miss the point again. Go away as you are obviously not Yes voters. That or take the medication you have stopped taking.
‘Uplifting & positive news’ (these disgusting frauds can’t hide who they really are)…
DailyExpressScot: (03/03/2022): ‘Secretive SNP refuse to reveal cost of social media influencers as they spend £2.8m of taxpayers cash on advertising’:
“It was revealed that the Scottish Government spent about £2.8m of taxpayers money advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter.
That 2021-22 total is a huge rise on five years ago…”:
https://archive.ph/3rWHr
Guardian (2015): Nicola Sturgeon is ‘superb’ on Twitter, says platform’s European chief
https://archive.ph/NhQVe
Holyrood (2015): The Nicola Sturgeon interview: how to use social media:
“Sturgeon was one of the first politicians to really embrace the value of Twitter, ensuring she struck a balance between the political and the personal. She has been tweeting since 2010 and has over 116,000 followers.”
Nicola Sturgeon:
“Me, usually, and what I hope I apply is common sense most of the time. Since the day I first went onto Twitter I have applied a couple of very basic rules and so far it has mainly kept me out of trouble.
“The first rule is, don’t say anything on Twitter that you wouldn’t stand in front of a television camera and say. I think that’s the mistake a lot of politicians make, they forget it is public…
Some politicians just don’t get social media, frankly. There are lots of them… it’s partly about self-promotion, otherwise you wouldn’t do it. But if you want to engage with people it has to be more than that…”:
https://archive.ph/zh2Ue
Inews (25/01/2022): Nicola Sturgeon: Social media is a ‘toxic sewer’:
https://archive.ph/qo7Yv
HeraldScot: Nicola Sturgeon critic Wings Over Scotland tops Scottish Government website list:
“…several SNP MPs have started to attack the site, either overtly or in code, by accusing it of sowing division in the Yes ranks….
MP Pete Wishart also said this week that bloggers were “one of the biggest threats to independence…”:
https://archive.ph/pHO7B
Pete Wishart Blog (2015): ‘Parliamentary Tweeter of the Year’:
“I am really chuffed to learn that I have been named ‘Parliamentary tweeter of the Year’ in this year’s award organised by Westminster Public Affairs…
Everyone will know how much I love twitter and I see it as an invaluable tool to communicate, share information and debate…”:
https://archive.ph/miBKU
Pete Wishart Twitter (2021): “It seems that the tide is firmly turning against the SNP bad bloggers at last. Their pernicious and malign influence on our movement is thankfully coming to an end.”:
https://archive.ph/4l617
Pete Wishart Twitter (05/04/2022):
“Twitter is becoming a cesspit of zealots and extremists…”:
https://archive.ph/9Zc2k
World Economic Forum (2021): Global Agenda: How can we stem the spread of disinformation online?
“Disinformation campaigns are not new — think of wartime propaganda used to sway public opinion…. What is new, however, is the use of the internet and social media to spread these campaigns. The spread of disinformation via social media has the power…”:
https://archive.ph/sgIko
Sun (2021): WHAT’S THAT? Senior SNP figures ‘had secret WhatsApp group chat codenamed Vietnam to plot against Alex Salmond’:
https://archive.ph/b58Wk
DailyRecord (2022): Young people encouraged to tackle ‘fake news’ to raise awareness of disinformation:
“SNP MP Stewart McDonald is running a video competition to engage young people in tackling online conspiracy theories and false news.
McDonald said: “Disinformation can be seen everywhere from conspiracy theories spreading across WhatsApp groups and private Facebook pages to political disinformation weaponised by hostile foreign actors.
“In 2022, it is clear just how widespread and growing a problem disinformation is for every society. It threatens every part of our lives, from our democracy to our national security, and it needs to be addressed by the people in power.”…”:
https://archive.ph/uMdei
Cheil @3.29pm.
Just as I thought, cheap digs.
Anyway I doubt this will male any difference but here goes.
“No Bodies! Touring Bucha With the Ukrainian Police, After Russians Left, Before the Massacre (vital/damning)”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/04/no-bodies-touring-bucha-with-the-ukrainian-police-after-russians-left-before-the-massacre-vital-damning/
The new mod snp thinks it owns the independence movement says it all really.
In 2017 I remember arguing with one of the head snps over sovereignty.
The ex- labour turned snp argued that sovereignty should lie with the devolved government.
I argued it lies with the people.
Sound familiar.
British parliamentary sovereignty being spouted during brexit.
Here is a direct way to ascertain the truth.
We elect them.
…’they’ seek to remove the power from you.
Don’t be deceived and open your eyes:
The public holds the power…
I see Putin’s Poodle and the usual clueless shills continuing their discredited “it woz them Ukrainian neo nazis wot dun it” narrative. Little better can be expected from skid marks on the indy movement like “Republic of Scotland” and the clapping seals who fluff for him in here of course, but to see folk like Jason McCann go full Putinista is even more concerning.
Of course his judgement has been suspect for a while, as we saw with his views on the trans rights extremists, but his latest venture seems if anything even more unhinged. Many of his recent posts on his new Standpoint Zero site had a shelf life of a day or two before collapsing around his ears. His “Serious questions about Bucha” piece casting doubt on undoubted Russian responsibility for the war crimes there was followed within hours by satellite evidence that the bodies discovered had been present well before Ukrainians retook the town.
The predictions our very own Cassandra of “up-to-date analysis of geopolitics, unbiased journalism and the reporting of changing global political realities and conflict” seem to have a half life shorter than RoS’ credibility.
Republicofscotland says:
5 April, 2022 at 4:43 pm
“No Bodies! Touring Bucha With the Ukrainian Police, After Russians Left, Before the Massacre (vital/damning)”
I can’t really comment on the dead bodies, not without more evidence, but what does strike me is the various armoured vehicles you see destroyed… To melt that much armoured(?) metal must have been an incredible heat.
I’m assuming it must be some anti-tank system, and maybe the ordinance inside a tank can contribute to the blast, but there’s something about it that just looks fearsome damage I don’t think you walk away from.
The ones I’ve seen seem to be tracked light armour, BMP’s rather than heavy tanks, but I’m kinda glad I’m not a tank driver.
There’s the unending evolution of weapon and countermeasure, but it kinda looks like the countermeasures currently have the upper hand over armour.
As far as snp are concerned they beleive they are the new gods over sovereignty and Scotland,
As many seem to (wrongly) think they alone are the “yes” or “independence movement”
This led NS during covid to dictate new laws for lockdowns that legally could only be advisory to Scots in Scotland.
Parliamentary sovereignty is a ruse.
In “the treaty of the union”and under the “claim of right” affirmed not so long ago, by the British parliament down south we are sovereign,
And we decide by voting them in or out of the either the uk parliament or the devolved parliament at each election leaving sovereignty ultimately in the hands of the people.
Parliamentary sovereignty not only has no comparison in Scotland.
As long elections continue in England it cannot be claimed parliament to be sovereign any where in Britian.
For NS or the snp to try snatch sovereignty out of the hands of the people in the Yes independence movement can only sorted by voting them out of that wrong thinking in the next Council elections.
@Breeks 5.14 pm
The armoured column that was being shown was ambushed by Ukrainians. It was reported they knocked the first and last vehicles out, trapping the others then used anti tank weapons to finish off the rest. A lot of the vehicles were lightly armoured personnel carriers and tracked vehicles capable of being air lifted, which the Russians had dropped in to Hostomel airport hence most were not MBT’s.
The Russian disinformatsiya about the bodies being plated or them being actors, and people seeing them moving has already been comprehensively fisked elsewhere. Only dyed in the wool Putinista’s give any credence to the denials. Recent satellite imagery has shown the bodies in place days before the Russians left. Doubtless Putin’s Poodles will be saying the satellite imaging companies are all in on the Russophobia too?
Conspiracy theorists just can’t help themselves: why accept the plain truth when a woo-woo conspiracy theory absolves your ideological masters of any stain?
Labour council candidate Jack McGinty looks like a 16 year old but he must be 18.
Anyway, his election campaign proudly states that he has served the are all his life?
After building 6 houses for rent over the last 5 year period controlling Holyrood they
Promise 1300 new homes?
They will deliver a fair deal for Key Workers?
Strange when they spent fortunes and 10 years stopping equal pay for
Glasgow’s female employees.
They have adopted the Tory mantra of lie for all you are worth to gain office but they just haven’t the polished money backed untouchable lies team Boris has.
“The Russian disinformatsiya about the bodies being plated or them being actors, and people seeing them moving has already been comprehensively fisked elsewhere. Only dyed in the wool Putinista’s give any credence to the denials. Recent satellite imagery has shown the bodies in place days before the Russians left. ”
Agent Ellis.
The bodies aren’t actors they are Ukrainians who the Nazi’s saw as collaborating with the Russian forces, so they killed them, as for your satellite story the Pentagon says it doesn’t know who killed the civilians.
The evidence points quite clearly to the Nazi forces, and its not just in Bucha that Nazi warcrimes have been committed, it will soon be released that the Nazi’s have killed civilians, as they have with Russian POW’s in Sumy, Konotop, and Moschun.
https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/?taid=624b43bd3225ef0001288ec4
breeks @5.14pm.
From what I can gather, the Russians are using the their air superiority to take out any Nazi columns the Nazi’s are almost a spent force so like in Syria with the false chemical attack that OPCW inspectors pointed out and were then ostracised by the OPCW, the false flag events using dead civilians in Ukraine is really the only option left to the West and the Nazi’s.
Already the EU is sending an investigation team to Ukraine to work hand in hand with the Ukrainian authorities to build a warcrimes case against Russia, the investigators aren’t independent, they are actively working with the Ukrainian Prosecution Services, its already been decided that Russia is guilty.
Incidentally, the Nazi’s are so low in vehicles, that the UK has sent scores of secondhand 4by4 vehicles for the Nazi’s to use. Look out for UK vehicle plates on damaged vehicles.
@Putin’s Poodle 6.12 pm
Aw, close but no cigar tovarich! Of COURSE they can’t independently confirm it: it’s a fricken war zone. Every news outlet plasters the coverage at the moment with disclaimers that they can’t independently verify claims, because they don’t have reporters at the front, as they have a tendency to get shot like Maxim Levin.
The thing is we all know that if in the near future independent sources comprehensively prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the Russians HAVE committed war crimes, you will never, ever accept it because your ideological blinkers don’t allow it. You deny Russian nationalists brought down the Malaysian Airlines plane in the Donbas. You focus exclusively on relatively rare instances of neo-nazi oppression by the Azov battalion in Eastern Ukraine, while belittling or denying hugely more widespread, indiscriminate and serious war crimes by Russian forces.
All we ever get from you is whataboutery referencing supposed western crimes in other places, as though that somehow absolved the Russians of what they were doing because you insist the Ukrainians were asking for it?
You’re an empathy void, utterly lacking a moral compass. I don’t believe you’re an independence supporter at all, but of course we’ll never know because you don’t have the courage to own your morally repugnant views. If you are however, you’re. a stain on the movement, and no friend of any right thinking supporter of Scottish independence, and neither is anyone else who shares your views.
That this place has become a haven for pro-UK/US/NATO warmongers seems scarcely believable, but that’s where we are now.
People who can boast about being Alba Founder members and make excuses for the behaviour of terrorists masquerading as an ‘army’, simultaneously? It is as close to ‘doublethink’ as any of us are ever likely to see.
It’s tempting to do as many others have done, and just leave the space altogether, but for as long as Rev Stu leaves this section open, there’s no way it’s getting left to become a 77 playground.
I appeal to those who have drifted away over the past couple of years. Please come back and help outnumber the handful of mischief-makers. The SNP may be well and truly fucked, but we can’t afford to let Alba go the same way. If we don’t speak out against the lies being parroted by Scotgov (re Covid as well as Ukraine) then there’s no incentive for Alba to ensure it doesn’t make the same mistakes.
None of us are obliged to belong to any party, and no party has the right to take us for granted. So if Alba can’t or won’t speak out against the blatant propaganda we’re all being bombarded with, I’ll certainly have no qualms about returning my ‘Founder’ badge, along with a brief suggestion as to what they can do with it.
Thankfully folk like Ian Brotherhood, “Republic of Scotland” and other apologists for Russian aggression aren’t representative of this place (now or in the past) or the independence movement, still less the Scottish population as a whole. The vast majority of folk are appalled by Russian aggression and war crimes in the Ukraine. They don’t accept the false and morally repugnant narrative that the Ukrainians “had it coming”, or that Putin is a hero.
If you’re so convinced your take on events is welcome in Alba Ian, I wonder what others in your branch feel? It’s certainly not an outlook i recognise from my branch. Being anti NATO, anti USA and an anti-vaxxer is your personal prerogative of course, but none of them are – thankfully – party policy to my knowledge.
The vast majority of Scots people – and more importantly voters – reject the ridiculous agitprop being spouted by Putin’s shills in here and in the media. They see the allegations of ethnic cleansing in the Donbas and the Ukraine being in thrall to neo-nazis for the nonsense they so undoubtedly are. Of course it’s no huge surprsie that someone who indulges in ascientic conspiracy theorising about Covid would be a big fan of the Putinista’s in here and their world view.
With friends like these, the party hardly needs enemies….
This breaking more to come.
US 3 Star General Captured Leading Azov Nazis in Mariupol his Mi-8 helicopter was shotdown fleeing the destroyed Azovstal complex.
The general has been named as Lt.General Coultier.
I fully expect a denial from a Whitehouse spokesperson to follow.
Andy Ellis/John Main
Please do not respond to Scum 1. Ignore he/she/it and hopefully, he/she/it will simply go away.
Ian Brotherhood.
You are getting close to being titled Scum 3. The achievement of this accolade will result in ALL of your posts being unread. Probably best if you do return your Alba ‘Founders’ badge. Alba does not need your kind within the ranks.
Gregor
Do you have to constantly post other peoples stuff. Try and be original, if you can?
Wings over Scotland is floundering. Too many posting the same stuff over and over again. Myself included.
Spot-on Ian Brotherhood .
You said it all . Glad some of us are immune to what’s the most intense attack on critical thinking eg unadorned , across-the-board propaganda I’ve ever known . Following-on from the similar Covid-related blitz on independent thought , with the same loud-mouthed drones buzzing about shitting on anything that doesn’t conform to their ghostwritten narrative
Bravo Sir 🙂
I watched a programme by Ian Hyslop on fake news last night on BBC 4. Ever since journalism was invented fake news has been about. It is getting harder for ordinary people to determine what is real. Confirmation bias, profiteering, the dearth of public interest in facts and the algorithms of social media. (A friend of the SNP) and so on. However I trust this site. So let’s not fall out too much. We may have to stand on the street together during an Independence campaign one faraway day.
I hope that one day someone will comment ‘observed at birth’. And an awake person will answer – ‘the midwife or doctor looked at the baby’s external genitals, which had been months in the making within the womb, and recognised m or f. Or do you think a birth fairy waved a magic wand?’ Then the sane majority can demand an answer.
@Chas
re. “Do you have to constantly post other peoples stuff.”:
Yes, that’s my primary focus (re. ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive’).
This Scot Gov/State isn’t systematically destroying our Scotland – its status and existence (‘our sovereign stuff’) – without the facts and evidence being publicly archived.
WEF Scotland Ltd is the ultimate plastic script-reading freak…
Ferret (03/04/2022): ‘Hollow’ Government rules let tax haven Highland estates get Covid grants:
“A Ferret analysis of Highland Council Covid grants found that the Ben Alder, Gledfield, Kilchoan and Dorback estates, each received financial support while being owned by companies located in either the Bahamas, Guernsey or Jersey.
They were eligible because Scottish Government rules only excluded companies from support if they were owned in a country named on an EU blacklist of tax havens…”:
….politicians argued the findings showed the government’s commitment to stopping tax haven firms receiving support was “utterly hollow”. Tax experts said the Scottish Government could have used benchmarks, other than the EU list, to ensure that public funds were not “wasted” on tax haven firms.”
https://archive.ph/RuiaV
Guardian (2021): Revealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections:
“…Zelenskiy has failed to reform the state and embraced the same shadowy ways as his predecessors. EU auditors warned last month that “grand corruption and state capture” remained widespread in Ukraine…”
https://archive.ph/OQ5ze
AXIOS (2021): Countries with highest number of politicians named in the Pandora Papers:
“The Ukrainian president may have pledged to reform the country’s corrupt system of politics, but the Pandora Papers tell a different story.
Ukraine is the country with the highest number of politicians named in the leak of offshore data, which implicates hundreds of people linked to offshore companies — including President Volodymyr Zelensky.
…offshore companies… often help facilitate tax evasion or money laundering…
Zelensky is one of several politicians who campaigned on anti-corruption platforms — others include… Prime Minister Imran Khan — who will now be facing questions over undisclosed wealth tied to them or their close associates”:
https://archive.ph/tRai8
BBC (2014): ‘Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict’:
This hyper-sensitivity and stonewalling were on full display after President Petro Poroshenko presented a Ukrainian passport to someone who, according to human rights activists, is a “Belarusian neo-Nazi”… the ultra-nationalists have proven to be effective and dedicated fighters in the brutal war… The volunteer Azov Battalion is a case in point….”:
https://archive.ph/eaWkS
STVNews (2022): ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky granted Freedom of the Highlands’:
https://archive.ph/svBiC
Freedom of the Borough:
“The Freedom of the Borough is the highest honour that a Council can bestow and the tradition is maintained as a means whereby public recognition may be given to the recipients as an expression of the highest esteem…”(source: midandeastantrimboroughcouncil).
DailyExpressScot (2022): ‘Volodymyr Zelensky… granted the Freedom of Edinburgh’:
https://archive.ph/R5oLM
Freedom of the City:
“…an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary.” (Wikipedia).
ScotGov (2022): £15 million for Ukraine response:
“The funds will be used to bolster the support available to Ukrainian nationals arriving in Scotland…”:
https://archive.ph/TdmbL
STVNews (23/03/2022): GPs warn medical services remain at ‘breaking point’:
https://archive.ph/weGVy
Scotsman (25/03/2022): ‘Ukrainians to access NHS services for free in Scotland’:
“Ukraine will be able to access NHS services at no charge on the same basis as people living in Scotland.
In addition… people coming to Scotland from Ukraine to meet residency conditions for Scottish social security benefits. This means… will have immediate access to benefits…”
https://archive.ph/KHthD
DailyRecord (01/04/2022): ‘Thousands of Scots face poverty as massive energy bill increases take effect from today’:
“Thousands of households across Scotland will be plunged into poverty today as families are hit…
Ian Blackford, the SNP leader at Westminster, claimed Boris Johnson had left Scots “out in the cold”…”:
https://archive.ph/C4lFk
World Economic Forum: Global Agenda: ‘Why Scotland’s last coal-fired power plant exploded’:
“First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pushed the button…”:
https://archive.ph/HIXlG
Gregor
I now see why you post other peoples stuff.
When you post something of your own it is complete gibberish. Do you honestly think that you are saving Scotland, all on your own, by archiving stuff? Wow!
@Chas:
…while you prove yourself – I’ll focus on informing ‘the truth’ (re. unprecedented systematically engineered disaster)…
Telegraph (05/04/2022): ‘For the work-shy, Covid is the gift that keeps on giving’:
“Thanks to the NHS‘s new wide-ranging list of ‘symptoms’, absenteeism is the only epidemic that threatens the health of this country now…
You have to laugh, although this is not really a laughing matter. Not when the new “symptoms” – which sound remarkably like the condition formerly known as “a bit of a cold” – are basically an open invitation to call in sick… Most especially not when Covid-related absences are still causing havoc in essential services such as schools, hospitals and airlines…”:
https://archive.ph/bD4K5
Gibberish:
“Spoken or written words that have no meaning.”
“Without a legitimate, proper national language to maintain a sense of community and communal truth, the polyvocality of the nation descends into a state of gibberish and social chaos.”
“I will give an example of the kind of gibberish that is being sent out to teachers at the present time.”:
https://archive.ph/cGodV
ChristianInstitute (2021): ‘Chorus of disapproval over Scot Govt trans guidance for schools’:
“Opponents have accused the Scottish Government of promoting transgender ideology, eroding the rights of parents and using unreliable statistics….
Marion Calder, co-director of the campaign group For Women Scotland, described the guidance as “really, really worrying” and accused the Scottish Government of pushing a “dangerous ideology”…”:
https://archive.ph/E0uNn
Spectator (2021): ‘The SNP may never recover from its bungled Hate Crime Bill’:
“Opposition to the SNP’s proposed hate speech law is clearly growing…
Holyrood badly misjudged. Any intelligent person could see at a glance that the proposals were a monstrosity…”:
https://archive.ph/dPUUj
STVNews (09/03/2022): Report on scrapping SQA after ‘third year of exam chaos’:
https://archive.ph/pBLK8
Express (01/04/2022): Sturgeon’s finance chief was warned ferry chaos ‘likely to pull government down’:
https://archive.ph/udFLG
STVNews (04/04/2022): ‘Easter holiday travel chaos as hundreds of flights cancelled’:
“…Val McDermid was among those affected.
“In the last 3 days Easyjet have delayed three flights, meaning I had to completely reroute one journey, miss two connections and spend 7 hours in Edinburgh Airport,” she wrote on Twitter:
“And at no point has anyone been available to help the poor passengers rebook or reroute. And there’s no comeback.”…”:
https://archive.ph/iaESE
@gregor 9:32pm
Stop there. You are ill informed. I went out on a pub crawl in Edinburgh with my A and E son last week. The first time we have met up in months. The Cafe Royal if you have to know. Things are falling apart in the SNHS. Of that there is no doubt. But what is the reason?. We changed the SNHS into the Scottish Covid Service. I wrote some time ago that the additional avoidable deaths would be between 25000 and 40000. He doesn’t disagree with me. But don’t denigrate SNHS Doctors or Nurses lions led by donkeys. They are knackered and not shirking. He hasn’t had a day off for a year.
cheers, Robert Hughes
psychologically, “wokeism” has strong religious overtones, specifically a “new puritanism”
“the harder they come” is a great film, and if you like reggae, incredible, with wonderful songs
“you can get it if you really want”
“as sure as the sun will shine/ahm gonna get my share of what is mine”
“many rivers to cross”
it caused a sensation in jamaica when it came out, and the authorities shitting themselves, even the CIA starting to take an interest, and allegedly subverting the music over to the passive, ‘erb smoking, variant of Marley’s rastafarianism …
It shows up the importance of popular culture; it is significant that Braveheart came from Hollywood.
@Tannadice Boy
I don’t doubt the genuine intent and efforts of NHS staff (respect).
Corrupt NHS bosses are a whole different matter.
@gregor 11:00pm
Thanks on behalf of my son his colleagues. But corrupt NHS bosses get away with it because of a corrupt SNP Government and the publics disinterest in the facts of what is actually happening. I am at him to give up and move to Australia. Pain for me and the wife but they look after their Doctors better than us.
@Tannadice Boy
We’re all in this together – we’re all behind your son and his colleagues.
Don’t lose faith (it’s what ‘they’ want).
Humanity is on our side…
Ian Brotherhood @ 6.43pm.
Well said Ian, I feel like a group of one too. I fully understand that the Ukrainian situation is deeply upsetting, but the propaganda we are being bombarded with is and should be deeply concerning too us all. Its just to easy to say that 1984 is the West’s little red handbook now.
Confused
I seen The Harder They Come in the 70’s and a few times since , loved it then , still do : likewise Reggae music . ” Rebel Music ”
It came it out-as you’ll know , during the peak of the so-called ” Blacksploitation ” movie period , similarly featuring predominantly Black actors/characters in central roles : a significant advance from previous stereotype ” as a comin Massa ” condescension . I reckon it’s the best of the entire genre .Pure brullyint soundtrack tae
@ Ian Brotherhood , Robert Hughes , I promised myself to ignore the balloon but he is so full of his ain importance it is difficult Andy pandy the fake indy supporter the man who knows what the world is thinking as he constantly ASSERTS “The vast majority of Scots people ” , the utter hypocrite who shouts about the sovereignty of other countries and defends their right to be nativist nationalists , andy pandy refrains from calling them scum , loonballs , pork or any other name he can dream up
Andy pandy the great believer in his version of civic nationalism has decreed that Scotland should be given away to anyone who wants to come here for a visit or who wants to own an air B and B or who has a holiday home , Andy pandy believes ONLY other countries have indigenous peoples and natives , Scotland is fair game for ANYONE coming from anywhere
Andy pandy the armchair general or the Britnat Squaddie either or is a boring bombastic arsehole
@twatbynametwatbynature 2.45 am (! troll farm hours is it?)
And yet, here you are like a dog returning to its own vomit trying to justify your woo-woo. Anybody with an internet connection can easily find out I’m not a fake. the same can’t really be said for snivelling anonymous internet trolls like yourself now, can it?
It should be pretty easy for you to provide evidence proving I’m wrong if you and the Putinistas speak for the vast majority of Scots. Let’s have it. We’ll wait…..
The nativist bullshit isn’t convincing anyone but a small cadre of the hard of thinking in here. Months and months of banging the same drum and you still haven’t answered the original critique of blood and soil nationalism made by Stu Campbell. Odd that none of you treat him to the same invective as you treat others who point and laugh at your regressive world view.
It’s no huge surprise that most of those keen on blood and soil nationalists are (imagine the shock!) invariably Covidiots and prone to thinking the Ukrainians had it coming because *Great Satan* or variations on a theme.
You all represent a pathetic fringe group of nutters who disgrace the whole independence movement. It’s good to see them getting short shrift in Alba, as well as amongst the population as a whole.
Scots know Tartan Trumpists when they see them.
@gregs 5 April, 2022 at 11:46 pm
“it’s what ‘they’ want”
How about ‘you’ define who ‘they’ are then Gregs?
Just so that ‘I’ can get it clear how ‘they’ differ from ‘us’, or even ‘me’.
BTW, is it just ‘me’ that wonders where Hattrick went?
There he was, busily digging away in his hole, then he disappeared and was never heard from again, but wait, here’s Gregs, spamming 99 times a day.
This site specialises in conspiracy theories. This is one that I actually find convincing. And that doesn’t happen very often.
@Andy Ellis 5 April, 2022 at 7:01 pm
I predicted yesterday that Republic will post at least one pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine, “Nazis”, “Satans” type message each and every day from yesterday until 5th May.
All supposedly in order to bolster Indy, Alba, etc in the run up to the elections.
Go figure.
There was once a lovely , gentle , intelligent man who brought logical thought, a myriad of ideas and a great deal of kindness and understanding in his comments.
I miss him and wonder why the intelligent quotient has dipped so much on this site.
His lady wife is no slouch either ,my thoughts wing their way to Sybil.
“intelligence’! Though I suppose it works either way.
@John Main 8.42 am
Indeed. That’s the trouble with being a conspiracy theorist. What May start as a relatively harmless attraction to off the wall, slightly “edgy” opinions about any given topic, whether climate change, vaccinations, franchise change, media bias etc. all too often ends up spiralling out of control leaving the sad victims sitting under their bridges throwing rocks at passers by, loudly shouting that only they know the truth, and the rest of us are just hopeless dupes. They are somehow privy to intimate knowledge of these cunning conspiracies.
Thus: climate change is a hoax, Covid vaccination is a WEF/illuminati/space lizard plot, Scotland is a colony being overwhelmed by “furriners” who get the vote if they fly over Scotland on holiday, and their new favourite….the Ukrainians have only themselves to blame and all the coverage of the special military operation is overdone to aid the military industrial complex and “the Great Satan”. If it weren’t so pathetically unpopular and indicative of the nutter fringe in the Scottish context it would almost be funny.
The tiny clique of Wolfie Smith clones pedalling this nonsense are more likely to be seen strutting around the floor of Holyrood in a buffalo headdress than they are being taken remotely seriously by more than a few per cent of the electorate.
Morgatron says:
5 April, 2022 at 11:47 pm
Ian Brotherhood @ 6.43pm.
Well said Ian, I feel like a group of one too. I fully understand that the Ukrainian situation is deeply upsetting, but the propaganda we are being bombarded with is and should be deeply concerning too us all. Its just to easy to say that 1984 is the West’s little red handbook now.
I’m not pro Russian, but I really don’t like being told who the bad guys are by NATO / Western warhawks who have a selective morality when it comes to war crimes, a duplicitous disregard for the promises it makes, a thoroughly despicable lack of integrity about who it is willing to sell weapons to, whether that’s ISIS, the Saudi’s in Yemen, or the Nazis in Ukraine. I’m gonna include Israel in that bracket too, because peace cannot be realised in the Middle East until International Law is upheld. How the fk Israelis with half an eye on history can condone the bestial bullying and mistreatment of Palestinians beggars belief, but the Western double standards which tolerate such conduct are quite grotesque.
And when it comes to propaganda, I am at a loss to reconcile why I am meant to suddenly trust the honesty and validity of the British mainstream media which hasn’t a speck of integrity or impartiality when it comes to Scotland’s self determination.
To be lectured by the BBC about Russian propaganda is really taking the biscuit, to an extent far beyond trust. It goes beyond doubting what the BBC says is true, and breeds a cynical baseline skepticism that what I see and hear on the BBC is probably untrue, and intended / designed to indoctrinate the unwary.
Dorothy Devine says:
6 April, 2022 at 8:48 am
There was once a lovely , gentle , intelligent man who brought logical thought, a myriad of ideas and a great deal of kindness and understanding in his comments.
Aye, that would be Smallaxe, wishing us all peace.
One of very few Wingers I actually met in the flesh. Not forgotten in these parts. 😉
Brent crude has averaged over $100 per barrel for the last 50 days,
1,000,000 barrels taken from Scottish waters every day,
last 50 days $5,000,000,000 stolen from the Scottish people.
Anyhoo,
new word i just found to sum up the yoons in Scotland,
`Oikophobia` (fear/hatred of home)
`The disposition, in any conflict, to side with ‘them’ against ‘us’, and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably ‘ours’.
Ian Brotherhood says:
5 April, 2022 at 6:43 pm
That this place has become a haven for pro-UK/US/NATO warmongers seems scarcely believable, but that’s where we are now.
I agree Ian, but there are still quite a few of us here who can think for ourselves and who can ignore the attempted bullying and browbeating streams of vile accusations and sneers from certain commenters. And plenty of us are also founder members of Alba who are not too happy with the party going along with the endless UK/US/NATO propaganda. I do believe Alba are too nervous to rock the boat with the elections coming up but they should perhaps just stick to their guns about indy instead of taking part in the unbalanced and unhinged russophobia we are all being bombarded with. And I see US/NATO arent happy enough with their Russophobia, they are back to provoking China as well. They wont rest till they bring about Armageddon. At least that will shut up the ignorant NATO/US shills here btl.
@Breeks 9.17 am
Your post elevates whataboutery to something of an art form. It takes a special kind of person to unselfconscious use the phrase “I’m not pro Russia BUT….” then proceed to make morally repugnant false equivalences between the manifest shortcomings of the BBC and the actions of Putin’s regime in closing down all dissent inside Russia.
Strange as it may seem Breeks, many in the movement share your concerns about the other situations you outline. We can be critical of Israeli policy and actions, of Saudi for its war in Yemen and of our own governments for their support for repressive regimes while at the same time not falling for the Kremlin’s narrative that Ukraine is a state captured by neo Nazis, or guilty of genocide in the Donbas, or not worthy of independence at all.
Being sceptical of the BBCs coverage of the independence movement or Scotland as a whole is one thing, making moral equivalences between what Putin is doing now and other situations is just nauseating. It gives comfort to the odious characters in here opining that there Ukrainians had it coming, or the now expelled Alba candidate who said Putin was his hero.
Are you actually so bereft of empathy that you can watch the coverage of the massacre of civilians in the Ukraine – by multiple news outlets around the world- and your default response is that you doubt it is true at all because of your hurty feelings about Project Fear in 2014. Have a sense of perspective for pity’s sake!
No wonder the indy movement is stuck in the doldrums with your brand of political analysis. An independent Scotland led by the moon howling fraternity in here has all the attractions of living in Putin’s Russia.
Twathater @ 2.45
I too usually avoid any post by Comical Eli like dogshit on the pavement . I only read and responded to one the other day out of amusement at his ” I’m not a spokesman for ALBA , but I’ll comment as if every word of mine has received the prior imprimatur of Alex Salmond , Rab The Bruce and God ” bollocks .
eg Like a ( self-elected ) spokesman for ALBA .
Worra guy , worra arset for ALBA , worra propagandising buffoon
Normal leapfrogging of A&E posts has resumed
Breeks at 9.17am
Well said! And when the pro-western US/UK/NATOist propagandists have to resort to the kind of sneering and insult seen here, in order to get their feeble points across, bullying and browbeating to try to silence anyone who disagrees with them, it just adds to the cynicism with which the MSM and BBC (and other western media outlets) are regarded. It does nothing either for these bullies other than to ensure that readers scroll past and take none of these sneers for anything other than just that, sneers, bullying and brow-beating – unsuccessfully.
Man who revealed Sturgeon the betrayers home address online has the case against him throw out of court. The COPFS foot soldiers (Police Scotland) arrested him but thankfully lady Dorrian was nowhere to be seen on this one.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20048299.no-prosecution-party-nicola-sturgeons-facebook-event%2F
I’d believe this guy of whom the SNP and the Lord Advocate did their utmost to stop him finding out the truth about the S30, long before I’d believe Sturgeon the betrayer and her seal like clapping SNP MSP/MPs.
“THERE is not enough time to legislate for, prepare for, and hold an independence referendum before the end of 2023 despite Scottish Government promises, the man behind the “People’s Action on Section 30” court case has claimed.”
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20046490.scottish-independence-vote-almost-certainly-not-2023-activist-claims%2F
Scot Finlayson
Every week or so you come up with the same shite about crude oil prices and monies ‘stolen’ purportedly from Scotland.
Do you really think that the COMPANIES who extract the oil do not incur any costs in doing so?
By your flawed logic it should have been the Government who discovered the oil then set about getting it out of the ground, distributing it where it needs to go, then refining it. Bankrolling this all the way. If they managed to achieve all of that only then could they retain any profit generated. Fat chance of that happening.
Any idea why the current SG sold out some of the sea bed around Scotland recently for a pittance, allowing COMPANIES to set up more wind farms to generate electricity?
Our Government have no expertise in anything other than squandering tens of millions of pounds on whatever vanity project they see as a vote winner.
I keep saying it but the ONLY way that Scotland has a chance to prosper is by voting out the SNP via the ballot box. Change via Treaty of Union and Constitution are simply wishful thinking for the ‘romantics’ amongst us. What is even more galling for me is that ALBA appears to be doing nothing to attract disillusioned SNP voters. Conservatives/Lib Dems will not switch their allegiance to ALBA. Labour voters, to a degree, have converted to SNP and if ALBA is to survive it has to attract current SNP voters. The Loons within the Greens are not worth talking about
Alex Salmond and ALBA have to go on the attack before it is too late. A poor showing at the May elections and they will be virtually dead and buried. Subsequent Court actions may resurrect them but, given what has gone before, I am not so sure. Sturgeon appears to have control over the Judiciary and Police.
Politics really is a filthy business-always has been-always will be. If a Party (ALBA) is unwilling to accept this and get down and dirty it is doomed.
Finally as a supporter of NATO it now appears I am a warmonger, according to some. The whole world should have turned a blind eye to that nice Mr Putin strolling into Ukraine with millions fleeing in fear and thousands dying. They could have done the same in a year or two when Russia decided ‘Who’s next’?
Some times you simply have to stand up and be counted.
I thought we stood up to be counted when we marched against the war in Iraq – not an inconsiderable number . Then that was followed up by a war in Afghanistan and the blootering of Libya not to mention ” no boots on the ground ‘ in Syria.
We have dirty, bloody hands and we are as Lady Macbeth devoid of enough soap.
Chas.
Do we want disillusioned snp that have helped ruin scotland all these years since 2014.
Will they contaminate Alba from the inside,
Maybe.
But that maybe, would concern the early snp leaving their party that saw the dangerous path the globalist snp were taken.
However I am not sure about the latter day leavers of the snp that would join Alba only for two reasons,
1: because they are rats leaving a sinking ship.
2: because they conceive if Alba was infiltrated and controlled from within the ” Yes ” movement would eventually collaspe.
It is a worry when bullies and pretend gods enter Alba.
Causing deliberate division,
Look what has happened when old labour and the greens infiltrated the snp.
Snp now hold hands with westminister and sporting dangerous agendas anti- family and anti- society coherence.
If they are genuine in their change of heart they will have their say at the ballot box the same as everyone else.
But
But…..
On the other hand i am always sceptical of any voice that sounds like a snp and old labour telling us do not look to closely at the treaty of the union.
That we the sovereign Scots are only daydreaming,
It is only daydreaming when you sit on your hands and suggest to others to do the same.
Here’s a link to a video which appears to show Ukrainian soldiers beating the living daylights out of civilians.
Or are they really Russian troops disguised as Ukranians?
Who can tell?
twitter.com/search?q=ukrainian%20soldiers&src=typed_query
@Dotty 11.55 am
So because “we” have blood on our hands what’s your hot take then? We should let Putin get on with it? Presumably we’d then have to acquiesce when he “re-occupies” other former Soviet satellites like Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the central Asian republics? Perhaps you’d regard the former Warsaw Pact members now in NATO and the EU as worth defending, perhaps not. How about Finland and Sweden? I bet they’d feel great if Putin had just steam rolled in to downtown Kyiv after subjecting it to the Mariupol carpet bomb treatment, huh?
I’d like to say I credited you with more sense than to believe that the coverage was fake, or that we shouldn’t actually see a difference between the actions of repressive dictatorships like Russia and China and those of western liberal democracies, however imperfect.
Despite what the increasingly desperate cadres in here fondly imagine, most Scots are staunchly pro NATO, Atlanticist, multilateralist and stand with the Ukrainians. It’s obvious to the dogs in the street, yet we have the usual suspects in here insisting the Ukrainians had it coming, deserved it because they’re Nazis and parroting the line that the coverage of obvious Russian war crimes is fake news.
Don’t you watch the news and see the people describing their first hand experiences and stop to think that RoS and the other Putinistas might be not just wrong but ill intentioned?
Old adage.
Where ever you go, there you are.
Adaptation.
What ever you say, there he is.
Agent Ellis @ 1.25pm.
You obviously haven’t got a clue.
There are 2000 American diplomats in Armenia, one for every 1200 citizens of the host country. (for comparison, the Russian embassy before 2018 had 60 diplomats).
The American expert Daniel Gaynor, who is an employee of the Truman Center for National Policy in New York, explained why
“The best explanation is a real estate mantra: location, location, location. Armenia, a landlocked country with just 3 million people, might be in the roughest neighborhood in the world. But in America’s eyes, it might be in the most important position of any U.S. ally to advance President Obama’s foreign policy agenda. What Armenia lacks in natural resources – it has little oil, gas or jewels – it makes up for in geography. Few countries are in better position to shape U.S. foreign policy than Armenia. Armenia borders Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran. As a part of the former Soviet Union, it relies on nearby Russia extensively for trade and military backing. The U.S. has a significant stake in all five countries, and Armenia is now coming into view as a potentially potent lever to advance American aims.”
“A number of local NGOs helps the US expand its influence network in the republic. The total number of these “non-governmental organisations” in the small republic reads off scale: according to the data of the national statistical service of Armenia, there are more than 200. The US allocates almost $250 million annually for their activity. The work of the Armenian NGO is being coordinated by the American Embassy and such structures as USAID, NED, and the Open Society Foundation. in addition, radio-reconnaissance aimed at the border and nearby states – Turkey, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, etc – is being carried out from the new ambassadorial complex in Yerevan”
@Dorothy Devine 6 April, 2022 at 11:55 am
“We have dirty, bloody hands and we are as Lady Macbeth devoid of enough soap”
Good grief, Dorothy, what have you done?
Whatever it was, get yourself along to the polis, confess, and help them with their clear up stats. You’ll feel better in the end.
BTW, who’s this ‘we’ you write about. You take responsibility for yourself. Leave me out of it.
@Fionan 6 April, 2022 at 10:11 am
“That this place has become a haven for pro-UK/US/NATO warmongers seems scarcely believable”
You are so right, Fionan.
Let’s make a start on sorting this out.
I call for an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, the withdrawal of all Russian troops back to Russia, an independent assessment of damage and war crimes, and reparations from Russia for costs. I call for those found guilty of war crimes, of whatever nationality, to be punished appropriately.
There you go, Fionan. That’s about as far from “warmongering” as it is possible to get. I look forwards to your endorsement of my post.
Don’t let me (and the readers here) down.
@John Main
There you go applying logic to situations again. It’ll never catch on in here these days you realise? Where else would you get someone posting a link to one supposed incident of Ukrainian soldiers beating someone up treating it as some slam dunk proof that the wicked western Great Satan and their neo nazi allies are just as bad and probably worse than poor misunderstood Vlad Putin?
If these people weren’t so delusional and dangerous to the prospects for independence they’d be comical. Thor news last night interviews ordinary Ukrainians traumatised bu seeing their husbands shot in cold blood in front of them, their neighbours being shot at in cars, and others being shot at by Russians to stop them trying to rescue neighbours buried under buildings destroyed by ballistic missile strikes….but the hand wringers in here are outraged at one video of Ukrainian soldiers giving someone a beating.
Sheesh….no wonder they can’t see any qualitative difference between BBC bias and the disinformation of Putin’s regime. These people have no perspective as well as no moral compass.
“Thor news last night interviews”
Agent Ellis.
I haven’t come across Thor news, however I have come across Thor Industries, which is in Poland, and its 100% behind the Ukrainians, naturally in Poland.
Here the Nazi’s tie up civilians.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/w1zvj2TAyWhL/
Andy pandy the boring arsewipe who has boasted numerous times of a website but has to attempt to commandeer and capture someone else’s renowned Scottish independence website, in some kind of pathetic attempt to prove to himself that his intellect is superior and that HE really matters when all the time he is just a pathetic bore that no one would socialise with
A wee reality check Andy pandy if ANYONE,ANYONE was interested or entertained by your constant boring utterances you wouldn’t have to steal Stuart Campbell’s website they would visit yours , or are you just like wee nikkla you suffer from imposter syndrome and crave attention , ANY attention, as a britnat you are wasting your and your employers time but heyho
“EDINBURGH has sent thousands of sandbags to its twin city in Ukraine after an appeal for help in protecting statues and monuments while war rages.
More than 3000 sandbags are being delivered to Kyiv after a request to the office of Edinburgh’s Lord Provost.”
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20049324.ukraine-kyiv-receives-sandbags-edinburgh-plea-help%2F
Erm.. I wonder if the Lord Provost of Edinburgh realises that there’s a plethora of monuments all over Ukraine in memory of Nazi collaborators.
https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/
Genocide and war crimes are «hot» at the moment. This https://www.listland.com/10-horrific-facts-native-american-genocide/ deserves a recap. Guilty as charged? No, the US government doesn’t do guilt….Hawai’i, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama, Vietnam, Laos, Somalia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Nato….
It’s good to be in a special relationship. Ukraine is welcome.
John , thanks for making me laugh , no mean feat at the moment.
@Chas,
It cost $15 per barrel to extract our oil.
Today selling at $112 per barrel,
so take away your $15 that leaves $97 per barrel,
1,000,000 barrels today makes $97,000,000.
Norway,
Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger.
Equinor is the largest operator on the Norwegian continental shelf, with 60% of the total production.
The fields operated are Brage, Heimdal, Grane, Glitne, Gullfaks, Heidrun, Huldra, Kristin, Kvitebjørn, Mikkel, Njord, Norne, Ormen Lange, Oseberg, Sleipner, Snorre, Snøhvit, Statfjord, Sygna, Tordis, Troll, Veslefrikk, Vigdis, Visund, Volve, and Åsgard.
The company also has processing plants at Kolsnes, Kårstø, Mongstad, Tjeldbergodden, and Melkøya.
In addition to the Norwegian continental shelf, Equinor operates oil and gas fields in Australia, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, Libya, Nigeria, United States, and Venezuela.
STATE OWNED OIL COMPANY.
re. “How about ‘you’ define who ‘they’ are then Gregs?; so that ‘I’ can get; is it just ‘me’ that wonders; This site specialises in conspiracy theories. This is one that I actually find convincing”:
…I’m not surprised you’ve convinced yourself:
Bigot:
“A person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.”
“One who regards or treats the members of a group with hatred and intolerance.”
“An incorrigible bigot who hasn’t entertained a new thought in years.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot
Being fans of civic nationalism in the indy movement, let us celebrate : civic nationalism around the world.
Today’s star civic nationalist – Stefan, from the Ukraine
https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1649014604667.jpg
– this guy won’t be changing the voting franchise to reflect UN norms, I would bet. No blood and soil for him, just killing gyppos.
Look at him go, making the case for indy to the Soft Nyets among the New Ukrainians.
wir aw Jock Tamsons/Stephan Bandera’s bairns! as they say
Scot Finlayson
Many thanks for the Norwegian geography lesson. Not exactly sure why I needed it!
As far as I am aware neither the UK or Scotland has a STATE OWNED OIL COMPANY but correct me if I am wrong? Nor is either likely to have one any time soon.
I have no idea if it costs $15 per barrel to extract crude. Are you really suggesting $97 profit per barrel? Maybe you should revisit your sums again. There might be some costs involved in getting the crude refined into the various products that are of use. Only a suggestion!
Kenny MacAskill, in Westminster, tabling awkward questions about the Azov brigade? (details from 31 mins via link below):
Does that mean he’ll have to return his Alba Founder Member badge?
Bummer!
🙁
http://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-6th-april-2022
@gregor 6 April, 2022 at 6:20 pm
“An incorrigible bigot who hasn’t entertained a new thought in years.”
Aw come oan, Gregs. I have been entertaining your posts for weeks now. But it’s been balanced – your posts have been entertaining me.
So that’s two of us laughing on here today, me and Dorothy.
BTW, you have not answered the original question (as per Hattrick’s standard MO, but that must just be a coincidence), so here it is again.
@gregs 5 April, 2022 at 11:46 pm
“it’s what ‘they’ want”
Who are ‘they’?
Aw come oan, Gregs, gie’s a wee clue.
As Natalie McGarry’s trail for alleged embezzlement goes on at Glasgow’s sheriff court. I wonder what’s happening with the Police Scotland investigation into the missing 600K ringfenced indyfunds.
Maybe McGarry can tell the court that the missing money is woven through accounts, (even though the account/s show its not) in a similar fashion as the SNP has said.
@Confused 6 April, 2022 at 6:37 pm
Jings, that guy’s a nasty piece of work.
Thanks for the link, Confused. I am pleased to announce that having seen that pic, I now support Moscow 110%.
My only remaining question is how many kiddies can justifiably be buried alive beneath the rubble of their homes in order to eliminate that guy and all the others like him.
What’s your answer, Confused? 10? 100? 1000? More?
If you don’t know, maybes the Indy movement could commission a poll. Critically important to have the right number, in case it’s a question that gets asked on the doorsteps.
Confused @6.37pm.
The mass surrender of Ukrainian Nazis at Mariupol.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aEanhNSwYPoR/
Incidentally the MSM has thrown a blanket over the capture of the three star US general who goes by the name of Roger L. Cloutier.
He was also active in Syria, Cloutier is the commander of Allied Land Command . He previously served as commander of the United States Army in Africa.
Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) formerly Allied Land Forces South East Europe.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/06/blockbuster-us-3-star-general-captured-leading-azov-nazis-in-mariupol-unconfirmed/
@Main, Sunday Post and Commando comics fan
All questions will be answered by an independent UN investigation; the ukies I am sure are currently preserving all the evidence in anticipation of the inspectors.
I think “Stefan” is just an enthusiastic WW2 re-enactor. It’s all just tongue-in-cheek.
– the “28” tattooed on his head is to remind him of his IQ.
@Putin’s Poodle 8.05 pm
Meanwhile, back in the real world:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/05/tweets/no-nato-allied-land-command-leader-wasnt-captured-/
“The false claim was promoted in posts on the pro-Trump and QAnon internet forums patriots.win and greatawakening.win, both of which have played host to far-right and extremist content in the past. Hal Turner, a far-right radio host who has a history of elevating conspiracy theories, also repeated the narrative on his website. The headline on his April 4 story: “U.S. Army General CAPTURED in Mariupol with AZOV Nazis!”
Tartan Trumpists the lot of you. It’ll be buffalo headdresses and Russian flags in the Holyrood chamber before long….
Agent Ellis.
Politfact for your information is funded by the CIA via the Ford Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also funds it, and the deep state actor and founder of eBay Pierre Omidyar via his Democracy Fund.
Omidyar spent a fortune attempting to suppress Edward Snowden’s leaks.
Are there now rules on who can fight for their country?
Warfare can make strange bedfellows at the best of times.
Move along sir we don’t need help from former convicts.
Get real.
@Putin’s Poodle 8.58 am
It wouldn’t matter what the source was though for the Putinista’s. It could be an inconrevertible source, one that even RT would say was fair, and you and your ilk would still cook up come woo-woo that the Pentagon had replaced him with a double. Cloutier is in Izmir, with lots of other people.
The Mariupol story, like the narrative about Ukraine needing to be de-nazified is just Trumpesque fake news. It takes a special kind of person to give either any credence.
We all know you’re “special” already.
@Putin’s Poodle
“A statement signed by more than 300 historians who study genocide, Nazism and World War II said Putin’s rhetoric about de-Nazifying fascists among Ukraine’s elected leadership is “propaganda.”
“We strongly reject the Russian government’s cynical abuse of the term genocide, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, and the equation of the Ukrainian state with the Nazi regime to justify its unprovoked aggression,” the statement says. “This rhetoric is factually wrong, morally repugnant and deeply offensive to the memory of millions of victims of Nazism and those who courageously fought against it, including Russian and Ukrainian soldiers of the Red Army.
“We do not idealize the Ukrainian state and society. Like any other country, it has right-wing extremists and violent xenophobic groups. Ukraine also ought to better confront the darker chapters of its painful and complicated history. Yet none of this justifies the Russian aggression and the gross mischaracterization of Ukraine.”
One of the authors of the statement, Eugene Finkel, an associate professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, told us the influence of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi faction is relatively small.
“Neo-Nazi, far right and xenophobic groups do exist in Ukraine, like in pretty much any other country, including Russia,” Finkel said. “They are vocal and can be prone to violence but they are numerically small, marginal and their political influence at the state level is non-existent. That is not to say that Ukraine doesn’t have a far-right problem. It does. But I would consider the KKK in the US and skinheads and neo-Nazi groups in Russia a much bigger problem and threat than the Ukrainian far right.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/
Agent Ellis.
Oh Factcheck.org. Ah yes.
“The Annenberg Public Policy Center, which owns FactCheck.org, is based on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia and also in Washington, D.C. and is funded with an endowment from the Annenberg Foundation, which partners with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn has four undergraduate schools as well as twelve graduate and professional schools. Its Wharton Business School is a mayor deep state milieu on its own.”
Those who attended the Wharton Business School reads like a neocon dictionary from Warren Buffet to Elon Musk, to your old pal Donald Trump.
@putin’s Poodle 9.37 pm
More messenger shooting…..so the 300 historians and experts fisking your crown jewels are nothing then? Presumably you’ll have 300 something similar to rebut then….?
No?
Imagine our surprise.
re. “Who are ‘they’? Aw come oan, Gregs, gie’s a wee clue”:
Nationalist:
“An advocate of or believer in nationalism.”
“Member of a political party or group advocating national independence or strong national government.”
“Staunch nationalist who favored any policy that would give the country more power in the international arena.”
“The country’s Nationalist Party won the election.”
https://archive.ph/3iYQi
Globalist:
“Someone who believes that economic and foreign policy should be planned in an international way, rather than according to what is best for one particular country.”
“She is a globalist, whereas we are nationalists who will put our country first.”
“It is a vehicle for globalist power; it is preparing our economic, moral and cultural subversion.”
“It is designed to provide the excuse for a political project of the globalists to replace national democracy with new world order global governance.”
https://archive.ph/0WHdE
Wikipedia: World Economic Forum:
“The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation…
The Forum suggests that a globalised world is best managed by a self-selected coalition of multinational corporations, governments and civil society organizations.”:
World Economic Forum: People:
Nicola Sturgeon: First Minister of Scotland:
https://archive.ph/7PGrG
…what are you – Scotland…
If you are interested in what Reiner Fuellmich’s coronavirus committee found, and what he’s up to now, this is good.
😉
brandnewtube.com/watch/attorney-reiner-fuellmich-this-genocide-is-not-by-accident-quot-05-04-2022_jeaAHk3IofJ7U1R.html
By way of supplementary to the ‘Fuellmich’ link, here’s the latest breakdown of official ‘covid’ stats for Scotland.
And that’s me checking out, so night-night all!
😉
twitter.com/FreedomPodcast1/status/1511799220302487561
That’s an amazing bit of research from Ellis, possibly a world first – a jewish guy FINKEL claiming
NAZIS ARE NOT A PROBLEM
WTF !! – have the ADL been contacted? According to them antisemitic nazism is a big problem everywhere in the world, the antisemitism field spreading all throughout space.
FINKEL better watch his arse, he might be an antisemite himself, one of them “self hating jews”; maybe ukro-nazis are just them comedy-nazis, so beloved of jews everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovCf9VRLnDY
can “Stefan” do turn-turn-kick-turn … and hit the high note?
It should be emphasised that “conning the dumb goy” is a matter of pride for the tribalists, so you should – just accept everything they say uncritically. To be on the safe side.
300 signatures is impressive though; but I am sure I could get 500 opinions from renowned islamic scholars on why women shouldn’t drive cars, or leave the damn house … quantity is not everything.
long read, quite interesting –
https://cf2r.org/documentation/la-situation-militaire-en-ukraine/
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 5915fd No.11359925 4943
Oct 30 2020 10:45:10 (EST)
https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1322015793593360384
Fact checkers created in effort to reinforce propaganda [digestion]?
The battle to prevent truth from reaching the people.
The battle to maintain and push division.
Divided you are weak.
Divided you fight each other.
Divided you pose no threat.
System of control.
Information warfare.
Q
https://qanon.pub/?#4943
“Wtf?— @PolitiFact rates it ‘mostly true’ that the pro-police thin blue line flag is actually an ‘anti-Black Lives Matter’ flag.”
https://archive.ph/F4lDf
Guardian (2017): Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’:
“In Ukraine, the far-right Azov militia is fighting on the frontline – and running a summer camp for children.”:
https://tinyurl.com/yc7tny98
…and to think what the mainstream Fake News ‘Fact-Checkers’ are saying today (what fu**ing integrity).
@Ian Brotherhood
re. “If you are interested in what Reiner Fuellmich’s coronavirus committee found”
A must watch, many thanks.
These freaks will pay for their ultimate crimes…
Re Putins Poodles.
I was in Moscow a few years ago now and ran into some Russian Neo Nazis. The were going to kick the shit out of me until they realized I wasn’t English. I am not going to tell you this again – take your medication and put the tin foil hats back on.
Strange matter on worldmeters Covid stats.
The U.K. figures were not being updated for a few days
And just 3 days ago they acknowledged 166,000 deaths but today it over 169,000.
With 20-30,000 Excess deaths in the U.K. will any media outlet make the public aware of
the 200,000th under the management of the Tories who claim to have done so well?
Remember Boris advising us to say farewell to Granny as 20,000 could die?
EpochTimes (04/04/2022): ‘Counties With Highest Vaccination Rates See More COVID-19 Cases Than Least Vaccinated’:
“Counties with the highest rates of vaccination against COVID-19 are currently experiencing more cases than those with the lowest vaccination rates, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
The data is skewed by the fact that the CDC suppresses figures for counties with very low numbers of detected cases (1–9) for privacy purposes…”
https://archive.ph/DIVIJ
Sure fellow wingers will have noticed the McGarry Trial. This amateur swindler is being fingered as corrupt by SNP goons to deflect from their own larceny. It’s almost as though they are disparaging the work of an an amateur. Natalie you made the mistake of stealing a fraction from WFI when in fact your accusers stole 25 times and we also made sure that men in dresses had more say than women in the Indy movement. I have no truck with your grubby conduct but the movement has been smeared much more the the Sturgeon clique.
@gregors 6 April, 2022 at 10:54 pm
A masterpiece of opaque confusion from our resident baker.
So what’s an ‘anti-Black Lives Matter flag’ then, Gregs?
Is it a ‘white lives matter flag’?
Is it a ‘black lives don’t matter’ flag?
Don’t tell me you are getting into physics, Gregs, and discussing anti-matter! Could it be the case that if an ‘anti-black lives matter flag’ comes into contact with a ‘black lives matter flag’, they annihilate each other in a searing blast of radiation and heat?
The mind boggles.
@Effigy 7 April, 2022 at 7:50 am
A few seconds online research shows that the UK is at number 14 in Europe for covid deaths per capita, not great, but certainly not a disaster either.
At number 1 is Bulgaria with twice as many deaths as the UK.
At number 20 is Sweden, which famously did not lock down very much. Go figure if you can.
Yours numbers are all over the place, which suggests to me you don’t really know what you are on about. The numbers dying of Covid are of interest, but the true numbers are the yearly excess deaths. These are elevated, but not all of the increase is due directly to Covid. Undoubtedly the over-focus of the NHS on Covid has caused many indirect deaths from the usual causes.
These deaths will continue to add up and at some point, will likely exceed the deaths directly due to Covid.
There are plenty of sticks with which to beat Johnston. The Covid one is far from being the best, so I would do some more research if I were you.
Why not start with today’s mostly ludicrous announcements on energy policy and security?
Stu has this table on his GETTR feed.
Nice summary of the issues the SNP was elected to focus on. Instead, we get virtue signalling over Ukraine, endless fearmongering over ‘the bug’, and nonsensical shitery about gender.
If you want to see what ‘betrayal’ looks like as a page of simple bar graphs, this is hard to beat…
https://gettr.com/user/RevStu
Confused says: 6 April, 2022 at 6:37 pm
Being fans of civic nationalism in the indy movement, let us celebrate : civic nationalism around the world.
Today’s star civic nationalist – Stefan, from the Ukraine
https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1649014604667.jpg
– this guy won’t be changing the voting franchise to reflect UN norms, I would bet. No blood and soil for him, just killing gyppos.
Look at him go, making the case for indy to the Soft Nyets among the New Ukrainians.
wir aw Jock Tamsons/Stephan Bandera’s bairns! as they say
That one has been on the net since the summer of 2015 and is actually of a Ukrainian police officer, who, to no one’s surprise, found himself quickly out of a job – the sort of sting Britain’s tabloids do with our own boys in blue all the time without anyone (bar the staff of Hope Not Hate and Searchlight – but they do have mortgages to pay …) claiming it as proof said nation is overrun by Nazi fascist Death Eater Orcs from the planet Skaro or whatever.
For the benefit of those wishing me to show my working:
https://tineye.com/search/091f6dd68ef160c47f488395f9cadf9ca75692ab?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
Small tip for the masses: next time you have some remedial troll like the above (and whatever other alias he may come on with since Rev.Stu can’t be arsed moderating his own website) proffering photographic proof, Tineye is your friend.
@Ian Brotherhood 6 April, 2022 at 10:41 pm
If this site was running a Platinum Post award, or a Post Of The Year, your post would be nominated and you would soon be at the Gala Awards Dinner biting your nails and waiting for the big envelope to be opened.
For those who have not opened Ian’s link, let me tell you the key point:
For the two-year period 1st March 2020 to 28th February 2022, 966 Scots have died from Covid and nothing but Covid.
The other 12,455 Scots who died and had Covid written on their death certificates had pre-existing medical conditions.
For comparison with the approx 500 Covid fatalities per year, here are the main killers in Scotland for 2018 (https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/scotlands-facts/leading-causes-of-death-in-scotland):
Ischaemic heart disease: 6,615
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: 6,484
Lung cancer: 3,980
Cerebrovascular disease (including stroke): 3,831
Chronic lower respiratory diseases (eg bronchitis and emphysema): 3,469
Makes you f**king think, doesn’t it?
@Mark Boyle 7 April, 2022 at 10:21 am
So are you saying the elimination of Stefan is not worth the death of even one Ukrainian kiddie?
Shit, many Wingers were prepared to incinerate up to 10 kids for each Nazi killed. Collateral damage, regrettable but for a good cause.
Shit again. Who’s going to tell Putin? He doesn’t like being given bad news.
@Mark Boyle –
Someone will be along shortly to explain that ‘Stefan’ is a part-time actor and those ‘tattoos’ are just really big dabbities.
😉
John Main says:
7 April, 2022 at 10:47 am
@Mark Boyle 7 April, 2022 at 10:21 am
So are you saying the elimination of Stefan is not worth the death of even one Ukrainian kiddie?
No, Captain Straw Man, I’m saying treat morons on an unmoderated website posting out of context bollo with the contempt it deserves. Not too difficult to work out really.
However, since this site has long gone from being one about Scottish independence into the personal chat board for others to vent their pet conspiracy theories, perhaps the end result is no surprise. If that sounds cross, it’s not – more a sense of resignation.
The baw here is well and truly burst.
We should be more aware to NOT react to the deliberate disruptors and instigators on this website for Scottish independence,
They troll and deride us all no matter the topic.
It has to be noted they are always the same set of people,
and thus the pattern develops with each subject.
They are not here add any ideas or way forward for Scotland , but rather to constantly contribute to divert and block every conversation into an frenzied arguement.
Pitting us against each other.
It is time for us to realise we are being played by a group of maestros.
Stop dancing to their tune.
They are shooting bullets at our feet to ejoy watching us jump,
Be strong within yourself.
Do not engage. For the sake of the Yes independence movement and Scotlands freedom to choose a better way forward.
I am witnessing the independence movement being deliberately trolled into fighting each other.
BBC devil is exploiting science/BMJ/the public – like a Fake News whore…
BBC news censored:
BMJ (19/01/2022): Editorials:
“Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now
Data should be fully and immediately available for public scrutiny”
https://archive.ph/ez6EC
BBC (07/04/2022): Search the BBC:
“BMJ”:
https://archive.ph/8xter
BBC (07/04/2022) Covid: ‘Blood clot risk higher for six months after having virus’:
https://archive.ph/aONZE
BBC devil omission of key facts:
BMJ (06/04/2022): Risks of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and bleeding after covid-19: nationwide self-controlled cases series and matched cohort study:
“…the absolute risk among patients with covid-19 was 0.039% (401 events) for deep vein thrombosis, 0.17% (1761 events) for pulmonary embolism, and 0.101% (1002 events) for bleeding…
Study limitations:
We acknowledge limitations to our study. Firstly, registry based information is at risk of containing incomplete or inaccurate data. …overestimation of the risks might also exist owing to limited testing for covid-19, especially during the first pandemic wave. In addition, vaccine data were not available for our study.”:
https://archive.ph/mxCNi
Criminal Public Health Scotland/Scottish State: Where is our raw public covid data !
HeraldScot: ‘Anti-vax ‘misinformation’ forces official block on Scots Covid deaths data’:
“Public Health Scotland have stopped the publication of the number of Covid deaths by vaccination status following concerns it is being used as anti-vax propaganda.
Officials have said that they will no longer report on the number of cases, hospitalisations, and deaths by vaccination status on a weekly basis…”:
https://archive.ph/2YWeG
‘Anti-Vaxx propaganda’: The verifiable facts:
YOU LIE (re. ‘covid vaccine is not gene therapy’).
YOU FAIL TO COMMUNICATE KEY VACCINATION FACTS (re. maximum vaccinated results in maximum covid infection rates/infection odds).
Wilful negligence; gross negligence; criminal negligence >>> PRISON…
@WokeBigots:
Fake grassroots @BMJ is a US democrat political shell company/political campaign group/WEF shill:
ActBlue:
“Donate to help elect Democrats nationwide
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are counting on us to build the strong, unified party it’ll take to pass their bold agenda and build our country back better.”:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/legacy-donate-bfp
WhiteHouse: The Build Back Better Framework:
‘President Biden’s Plan to Rebuild the Middle Class’:
https://archive.ph/gdZep
Wikipedia: Build Back Better World:
“Build Back Better World (B3W) is an intended economic initiative by the USA and pre announced in the context of the Group of Seven (G7)…”:
https://archive.ph/pTxiH
World Economic Forum (2020) Global Agenda: To build back better, we must reinvent capitalism. Here’s how:
“…seize this opportunity to build back better – to reset… rather than ‘return to normal’…”:
https://archive.ph/4orMc
…Scotland democratically elected a Scottish nationalist government:
Why is G7, USA and its Fake president (self-elected globalist WEF shills) and dictating Scottish policy, determining our status and our future (seizing our sovereign nation).
No wonder there hasn’t been any justice in Scotland for years:
…WEF Scotland Ltd has hedged all its bets and believes it’s untouchable (re. the public must be reset so they cannot challenge our rotten power system – ever again).
These despicable devils have badly misjudged the public.
Hey MarkB, why don’t you – as the kids would say – “lurk moar”
that post is clearly a bit of satirical knockabout, the image so grossly over the top and without any redeeming context, that I thought it worth a mention; he does have a tattoo of Bandera on his belly, so go figure.
– the actual crux of the post is a little dig at our arms industry friend – ELLIS – who has been calling everyone “blood and soil nazis” for months because most of us have realised the 2014 voting rules were too slack and should be tightened, in line with worldwide best practice.
He is a true follower of the holy faith of “civic nationalism” and will not suffer any divergence; except he doesn’t seem to care much when the “blood and soil” is from someone else – Little Englander Empire Loyalists for example – in their second homes, and now bizarrely, in tune with the orchestrated propaganda of the BBC etc he is now a fanatical ukrainian nationalist as well.
– but he says : there’s no real nazi stuff among the ukies, it’s no big deal, happens everywhere … and offers as his own “proof” a piece, the most incredible thing, in which a jewish guy claims “no, no nazis in ukraine … fuggedaboutit … itsawright …”
The principle of non-contradiction is at the heart here; if you are trying to make an argument, you need to be consistent, but if you are merely a disruptor, it does not matter. I hate explaining things to dumb cunts like you – if you are not keeping up, don’t try to join in. If you like it “boring” then –
https://cf2r.org/documentation/la-situation-militaire-en-ukraine/
My real point is this – I don’t give a shit about Ukraine, I will not be distracted from my own interest – INDY – and I furthermore refuse to be manipulated by the chronic lying and propaganda of the BBC and the rest. Seen it all before, heard it all before – I am not buying a ticket; the ukrainians have been used as pawns by their corrupt leaders with foreign loyalties – never be a pawn.
@gregs – 7 April, 2022 at 12:58 pm
“BBC devil is exploiting science/BMJ/the public – like a Fake News whore…”
Hey Gregs,
Is a fake news whore just what we used to call a nosy gossip? Asking because there’s one in the downstairs flat …
I do wonder if you are maybes over-complicating things.
Most people are vaxxed, so most people who catch covid nowadays will have been vaxxed. There’s hardly anybody unvaxxed left to catch covid.
Simples.
Oh but wait. Are you one of the simpletons who still believes that a covid vax will stop you from catching covid?
FFS, surely there is nobody left still clinging on to that bollocks.
Good essay on Unherd today “The week the trans spell was broken”. Easy enough to find for those who are interested.
The author claims the genderwoowoo tide has turned, and politicians and other leaders have started the fight back.
Most notably, it’s the Tories who have been prepared to answer the question “what is a woman?”, clearly and sensibly.
Labour has gone into meltdown, while the SNP …
It’s almost as if the Tories have noticed there are elections just 4 weeks today, and have also noticed that there are easy votes to hoover up.
@WokeBigots: You are refuting verifiable news/facts/data, and established science…
VERIFIABLE FACTS (re. MSM/covid messenger’s unprecedented disinformation/lies):
BBC LIAR quote:
“a drastic reduction in covid transmission due to such a highly successful vaccine”.
NHS LIAR:
NHSInformScotland: Lies and mass disinformation:
How the vaccines work:
“All vaccines contain ingredients that help your immune system make antibodies (proteins that fight off infection and disease).”
“The vaccines cannot change your DNA.”
https://archive.ph/LJF5j
CDC LIAR (15/12/2021): Myths and Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines:
“MYTH: COVID-19 vaccines can alter my DNA.
FACT (LIE): COVID-19 vaccines do not change or interact with your DNA in any way.”
https://archive.ph/sDKk3
OxfordVaccineGroup LIAR (07/01/2022): FAQs about COVID-19 vaccines:
Can these genetic vaccines alter my DNA?
“There has been inaccurate information circulating online… the spike protein inside the body, this code cannot be incorporated into the body’s DNA.”:
https://archive.ph/Ofimf
BBC LIAR (15/02/2022): How do we know Covid vaccines are safe?
“They do not alter human cells…”:
“…because natural immunity may not be long-lived and immunisation could offer more protection.”:
https://archive.ph/oV5RF
THE REALITY/COVID VACCINE TRUTH (WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC):
FDA (2018): What is Gene Therapy?
“Gene therapy is a technique that modifies a person’s genes…”:
https://archive.ph/qDHnW
UKGov (01/04/2022): “lipids are an essential component in COVID vaccines as well as other gene therapies”:
https://archive.ph/gKE6a
ESTABLISHED SCIENCE (IGNORED & SUPPRESSED FROM PUBLIC DISCOURSE):
ScienceDirect (2019): Herd Immunity:
“Herd immunity operates optimally when populations are constantly mixing together…
Herd immunity is essentially a simple concept describing the totality of naturally acquired and vaccine-based immunity to a given infectious agent as a proportion of the whole population.
While the individual objective of vaccination is clearly to prevent or reduce the risk of infection for the individual concerned…”:
https://archive.ph/VTPyN
OxfordVaccineGroup (26/04/2016): Herd Immunity: How does it work?
“Herd immunity describes how a population is protected from a disease after vaccination by stopping the germ responsible for the infection being transmitted between people. In this way even people who cannot be vaccinated can be protected.
By being vaccinated an individual is not only protected from being infected themselves but they then also cannot pass this infection onto other people…”:
https://archive.ph/Fs7He
OFFICIAL DATA (NEWS/PUBLICLY CENSORED):
ONS: Covid-19 Infection Survey (23/12/2021): Characteristics related to having an Omicron compatible result in those who test positive for COVID-19:
Estimated likelihood of testing positive for COVID-19 with an Omicron probable result (odds ratio):
Not vaccinated: 1(LOWEST INFECTION RATE/INFECTION ODDS).
1 Dose: 1.23
2 Dose: 2.50
3 Dose: 6.05 (MAXIMUM INFECTION RATE/INFECTION ODDS).
PUBLIC TESTIMONY:
Furthermore, given that I’m not covid vaccinated and have not stopped working throughout my local community during the entire pandemic (whilst most were on lock-down), and given the fact that I have not suffered any flu/covid virus symptoms, for years, (while many in my local community have been directly affected by the covid virus) – I can testify from first-hand direct experience (as a biologically normal human being).
All emotionally driven @WokeBigots can offer the public is gutter-level slandering.
Confused @ 2.45 ( and every other time )
As the * young ‘uns * say nooadays …” yr smashing it ” amigo
The covid data is so damning that UK Gov criminal has altered its rules and methodology (again), just like rotten Public Health Scotland criminal:
What kind of government doesn’t want to provide the public with a robust covid monitoring system (e.g. during a covid tsunami with record breaking covid levels):
Vaccination status in cases, deaths and hospitalisations (page 37):
“Data on the vaccination status of COVID-19 cases, and deaths and hospitalisations with COVID-19, was previously published to help understand the implications of the pandemic to the NHS, for example understanding workloads in hospitals, and to help understand where to prioritise vaccination delivery.
From 1 April 2022, the UK Government ended provision of free universal COVID-19 testing for the general public in England, as set out in the plan for living with COVID-19. Such changes in testing policies affect the ability to robustly monitor COVID-19 cases by vaccination status, therefore, from the week 14 report onwards this section of the report will no longer be published.”:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1067158/vaccine-surveillance-report-week-14.pdf
Makes me smile.
Just off the phone to Scotland’s Census.
I phoned up to ask why the terminology on the Census form does not specifically mention what form of prosecution would they charge you with if you did not wish to fill in the Census form.
He explained they just could charge you as it was legal that you had to fill in the form.
I asked him, How can any legal prosecution be instigated or forthcoming by the Scottish Government?
It is a devolved Government and not Sovereign to Scotland in its created entity.
So we must presume that it claims its legal powers in this matter from UK Government.
However the Uk/GB or (its) Parliament are not Sovereign either.
For as long as it has been voted in by people.
The British parliamentary Sovereignty claim cannot be backed up other than by smoke and mirrors vague statements.
There is no British constitution other than that barely derived from the treaty of the union acts, and it does not mention That English Law is imposed or super cedes Scots Law.
Rather it states Scots law was to remain as it was and separate.
So where does the devolved Scottish Parliament and british created entity maintain it derives its powers in Laws from, when it comes to prosecuting Sovereign Scots over a Census paper not mentioned specifically in the signing of the treaty of the union,
Because every piece of legislation the Scottish devolved government tries to pass since its creation is subject to scrutiny by the GB/Uk parliament first and the Crown.
That the Crown under the Great Britain banner has the legality to (interfere or alter Scots Law) is actually a no go,
That therefore would not pass as Scots law, but English law being imposed on Scotland through the back door of a devolved government.
Breaking the article’s of the treaty of the union.
The articles of the treaty of the union have been ignored by the Great Britain parliament many times.
It is stated in those articles that Scotland shall be bound to Land Tax.
No exemptions mentioned for charities, national parks, rewilding Scotland or large private estate ownership.
But the rich and wealthy ownerships of Scots land would rather break the treaty of the union than pay up.
@ Confused and Robert Hughes hear , hear, more of the same maestro , but beware a nasty parasitical blog stealer will call you bad names
@gregs 7 April, 2022 at 4:06 pm
“I have not suffered any flu/covid virus symptoms”
And your point is, Gregs?
You do know that in excess of 40% of people with active covid infections have no symptoms?
You may have had covid once, twice or three times by now, never had any symptoms, and infected some of the people you mixed with as you continued to work throughout your local community.
@John Main:
I owe you nothing, Sir.
Everything you do appears to be driven by malicious personal attacks on members of public (zero fu**ing substance).
In future, I’m going to ignore you like you don’t exist.
…Feel free to keep proving yourself (people like you play a key role in establishing the truth).
New information source for @Woke…
UKGov: ‘Take care with what you share using the SHARE checklist’:
‘Things aren’t always what they seem online’:
“The internet and social media are full of facts and opinions. Most are balanced and informative but others can be misleading or even harmful to share with our friends and families. Worse still, false information can often be about important things that impact whole communities, like health or the environment…
You can use fact-checking services which are correcting false information about important issues every day. Or check the fact with an official source such as GOV.UK or Full Fact.”:
https://sharechecklist.gov.uk/
@gregs says – 7 April, 2022 at 6:29 pm
“In future, I’m going to ignore you like you don’t exist”
First the missus, and now you, eh?
But to be serious, I guess that’s easier for you than dealing with any of the points I make.
In future, I’m going to continue pointing out to you when your posts don’t make any sense, or are factually inaccurate.
Maybes one day you’ll thank me for pushing you to up your game.
@confused 2.16 pm
1) “– the actual crux of the post is a little dig at our arms industry friend – ELLIS – who has been calling everyone “blood and soil nazis” for months because most of us have realised the 2014 voting rules were too slack and should be tightened, in line with worldwide best practice.”
I’ve never called the nativist nutter fringe in here nazis, but like so many of the small claque of sophomoric extremists soiling BTL comments in here these days, I have labelled them – justifiably – as blood and soil nationalists.
Stu Campbell did likewise, and I tend to trust his judgement: it was after all his critique of the original franchise change narrative that they have so signally failed to refute in all the months of discussion. Much of the xenophobic analysis trotted out by the regressive nativists is of course all a bit Siol nan Gaidheal-ish: bonkers but decidedly fringe stuff.
2) “He is a true follower of the holy faith of “civic nationalism” and will not suffer any divergence; except he doesn’t seem to care much when the “blood and soil” is from someone else – Little Englander Empire Loyalists for example – in their second homes, and now bizarrely, in tune with the orchestrated propaganda of the BBC etc he is now a fanatical ukrainian nationalist as well.”
The vast majority of the movement would self describe as civic nationalist. You and your regressive mates can diverge from it all you like: nobody is stopping you, but the rest of us – the overwhelming majority – are free to point, laugh and call you out for being regressive nativists who are damaging the movement. Do better. The only ones responsible for independence not being achieved are the overwhelming majority of native born Scots who don’t have the gumption to vote for it in sufficient numbers. It’s not rocket science.
Like any self respecting nationalist, I fully support the rights of the Ukrainian people both to defend themselves from imperialist aggression from Russia, and to their self determination. Again, those who are pandering to Putin are very much the minority both within the Scottish independence movement, and in the wider electorate as a whole. No amount of bloviating about BBC bias hides the facts on the ground in Ukraine. Those pushing variations of the “Ukraine had it coming”. “Putin is a hero”, “Russia is only defending itself” or “Ukraine needs to be de-nazified” narratives are largely speaking to themselves: nobody with a moral compass or a sense of perspective takes them remotely seriously.
3) “My real point is this – I don’t give a shit about Ukraine, I will not be distracted from my own interest – INDY – and I furthermore refuse to be manipulated by the chronic lying and propaganda of the BBC and the rest.”
Aye, very good. We get it. You’re only interested in your narrow wee horizon. Dour, limited, chip on both his shoulders. All the empathy of a rabid hyena. You have zero chance of achieving indy with that outlook of course: the whole world view is electoral kryptonite, both to the mainstream indy movement, but more importantly to the undecideds and “soft No” voters we’re supposed to be trying to convince.
Nobody apart from a handful of individuals in here – overwhelmingly comprising of collections of personality defects crammed into a bags of human skin – gives any credence to their performative QAnon / Trumpesque conspiracy theorising, whether about franchise change, vaccination, “Scotland as colony”, “Ukraine had it coming, what about [insert hobby horse issue here]”.
Such extremism does have the ability to inflict harm on the movement of course, but in all likelihood those pedalling the snake oil are just too unbalanced and “out there” to gain any traction. It’s a shame they’ve set up camp in this place and soiled its valedictory period right enough, but they’re no more representative of the indy movement than the Azov battalion is of the Ukrainian population.
Alex gets it partly right, Sturgeon the betrayer is also to blame, instead of calling for the start of WW3 with a no-fly zone over Ukraine, she should’ve gotten us out of this bucket of sewage union years ago, but her and her party have no intentions of doing that, the SNP are no longer the party for Scottish independence, we must all vote for Alba in May, and then Alba after that.
“ALBA leader Alex Salmond has blamed the Union for the spiralling energy crisis and said that fuel poverty will not end without independence.
The former First Minister is due to speak in Inverness on Thursday, and will say that the UK Treasury will always exploit Scotland’s energy wealth – whether that be oil and gas or renewables.”
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20052803.alex-salmond-blames-energy-crisis-soaring-bills-union%2F
“Like any self respecting nationalist, I fully support the rights of the Ukrainian people both to defend themselves from imperialist aggression from Russia, and to their self determination.”
Agent Ellis.
And what about the women and children murdered by the Nazi’s in Donbas for eight years, as they shelled schools, hospitals and residential areas, or the Russian speaking Ukrainians who were forced into a building in Odessa and then burned to death as thousands outside chanted death to them, do they not matter.
Apparently not, for neither you nor the masters you serve or the corporate media mentioned it, like I said the UK is a is a sea of sewage and hypocrisy.
So is Amnesty International part of the WEF/globalist/Russophobic new world order now….?
The Putinistas are running out of scapegoats faster than Putin’s Poodle RoS rowing back from his “Ukraine had it coming” comment….. 🙂
“Testimonies shows that unarmed civilians in Ukraine are being killed in their homes and streets in acts of unspeakable cruelty and shocking brutality”
Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/04/ukraine-russian-forces-extrajudicially-executing-civilians-in-apparent-war-crimes-new-testimony/
Confused says:
7 April, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Hey MarkB, why don’t you – as the kids would say – “lurk moar”
Amazing riposte keyboard warrior, can I be in your cool gang?
Confused says: [after its latest wall of rambling word salad]
My real point is this – I don’t give a shit about Ukraine.
Yet here you are droning on about it.
Just as you drone on daily about whatever else last triggered you from social media, under this and whatever other sock puppets you’re using here.
It’s the likes of you that’s helped kill this site stone dead as anything meaningful bar an archive of Stu’s posts. Long overdue time Stu locked it.
@Republicofscotland – 7 April, 2022 at 7:31 pm
“Russian speaking Ukrainians who were forced into a building in Odessa and then burned to death”
Plenty of that going on right now, Republic. Russian speaking Ukrainians being burned to death as a result of Russian military offensives.
Guardian Online carrying an article about this kind of thing today, actually. Russian speaking Ukrainians, phoned from Russia on their mobies, and told what will happen to them if they fall into Russian hands.
For some of these guys and gals, it just makes them fight all the harder. Victory or death is the only choice Russia has left them with. Kind of focuses the mind, does that.
Still, Republic, you can just ignore this. It doesn’t compute when filtered through your warped worldview.
And of course, patriots fighting for the right to be free gets no sympathy from a fervent Scots Indy supporter like you.
Strange one, that.
Agent Ellis.
It was I who reported in here that so called killing of civilians by Russian forces would be reported in other areas of Ukraine, in the likes of Sumy, Konotop, and Moschun, and what do you know the AI reports on at least one of them I mentioned, what a coincidence eh.
Anyway I see you totally blanked the murdering of women and children in the Donbas for eight years, and the murders of Russian speaking Ukrainians in Odessa.
Just search AI’s site results for murders in Donbas zero, murders in Odessa zero. Also AI is partly funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), no surprise there.
Main.
Away and read your UnHerd site, which is funded by Sir Paul Marshall, who is funded by George Soros and his Open Society Foundation.
@Putin’s Poodle 7.31 pm
Of course victims of Ukrainian nazis, the Azov battalion or of any such group matter. The difference between a moral empathy void like you and the rest of the population is that we have a sense of perspective. Those of us who don’t believe the “Ukrainians had it coming” or who don’t think Putin is a hero are capable of holding two thoughts in our conscience at the same time.
As your output here demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt your concerns don’t extend to all the people of the Ukraine, only to those you exclusively choose to identify with, the pro-Russian part of the ethnic Russian minority in the Donbas who want to leave the Ukraine. Strangely you never seem to be bothered about the Russians in Donetsk and Luhansk who regard themselves as Ukrainians, or express any outrage about the thousands killed in the “special military operation’. Odd that huh?
“Of course victims of Ukrainian nazis, the Azov battalion or of any such group matter. The difference between a moral empathy void like you and the rest of the population is that we have a sense of perspective.”
What, and its taken you Agent Ellis, eight years of murdering in the Donbas to find empathy, and only after Russian intervention do you feel it, aye right pull the other one it has a Chinthe on it.
The Azov battalion is integrated into the Ukrainian National guard, why only yesterday Ukrainian president Zelensky gave a video linked speech to the Greek parliament, Zelensky’s speech was followed by a Azov commander who also gave a speech to the Greek parliament, in which many Greek politicians got up and walked out in disgust.
However the Greeks were not that disgusted if you ask me, only today they voted to suspend Russia’s seat on the UN Human Rights Council, a council that’s so hypocritical that even Saudi Arabia has a seat with its dire human rights record.
(07/04/2022): Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola: Evidence of Pandemic and Bioweapon Cover-Ups:
https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2022/April/PDF/metabiota-pandemic-bioweapon-cover-ups-pdf.pdf
@Putin’s Poodle 8.21 pm
See…there you go again, as expected. Any right thinking person will applaud Russia’s suspension from the UN’s Human Rights Council, just as they would applaud the ejection of Saudi Arabia, Iran or other countries with dire human rights records. I’ve always thought any regime with that kind of record should be shunned. The countries voting for Russia to retain its seat would be a great place to start selective sanctions. A veritable basket of debloarables in state form…..
I’ve always had sympathy for those killed in the Donbas, including Ukrainians killed by Russian nationalists, as well as Russians killed by Ukrainian nationalists. You’re the one with the monomaniacal focus on the suffering of only one side – numerically now a far smaller group, not that it’s any excuse naturally.
You’re not a right thinking person though: you’re a skid mark on the independence movement. Most mass movements have such folk sadly.
Agent Ellis.
The only other country that I can recall being suspended from the UN Human Rights Council is Libya in 2011, later Nato killed at least 60,000 Libyans with its bombing campaigns, and in the process 144 tonnes of gold worth around $6 billion dollars at the then price held in Libya soon disappeared.
Nato has a long history of warcrimes yet no one has found themselves in the dock at the Hague, so don’t give me that high horse speech Agent Ellis, it might work on others but thankfully I’m immune to your BS.
@Putins Poodle 8.52 pm
There’s no moral equivalence. You’re immune to common sense. That’s quite a different thing.
Luckily, as we keep seeing, you’re only representative of the nutter fringe. It must be lonely, but that’s what happens when you’re a nasty piece of work with no moral compass.
Kumi Naidoo (2014):
“The World Economic Forum is a site of struggle, not happiness. WEF is built on preserving the status quo, not advancing change.”:
https://archive.ph/Dbsln
World Economic Forum: Agenda Contributor:
Kumi Naidoo:
https://archive.ph/08T8e
World Economic Forum: Agenda Contributor:
Richard Pearshouse: Head of Crisis and the Environment, Amnesty International:
https://archive.ph/HGAVB
Amnesty International (2019): Amnesty International’s Secretary General steps down:
“Kumi Naidoo, the organization’s Secretary General, has made the decision to step down from his position…”:
https://archive.ph/gxDat
Wikipedia: Kumi Naidoo:
“He has been a vocal critic of the failure of bodies like the World Economic Forum, to go beyond “system recovery”, “system protection and maintenance” instead proposing a system re-design…”:
https://archive.ph/vdQbC
World Economic Forum: Great Reset:
“World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative.”:
https://archive.ph/0KRAK
Initiative:
“If you do something on your own initiative, you plan it and decide to do it yourself without anyone telling you what to do.”
“The power or opportunity to win an advantage.”
“To seize/take/lose the initiative.”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/initia
…Why doesn’t the public use its initiative and win (or lose everything)…
Moral Compass:
“A natural feeling that makes people know what is right and wrong and how they should behave.”
“The implication of this view is that we should not use the therapy-enhancement distinction as our moral compass in human genetics.”
“Just imagine the impact of commercialism on young minds in medicine, trying to gain their bearings and set their moral compass.”
“The dark angels use the moral compass to turn everyone good to evil (with the exception of angels).”
“The solution was rather more a question of negotiating an invisible middle ground, and it required a moral compass rather than rules following…”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/moral-compass
Well, if Pink Floyd can’t agree on ‘Ukraine’, what chance the rest of us?
🙁
Here’s some more fodder for, and produced by, ‘Putin’s Puppets’!
🙂 🙂 🙂
http://www.bitchute.com/video/qmRtoSJIE3ys/
Ian B
Yr man , Zelenski , after his appearance at the Grammys ( and every other showbiz event/political forum – we won’t be at all surprised he turns-up on The Great British Bake-Off ) is an absolute shoe-in for an Oscar : in any of several categories , but most likely as Best Supporting Actor .
The main prize – the Golden Calf – will , predictably , go to the cast of * NATO * .
Good video . The whole thing just gets murkier as the world turns blue and yellow
Ian Brotherhood says:
7 April, 2022 at 10:29 pm
Well, if Pink Floyd can’t agree on ‘Ukraine’, what chance the rest of us?
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I’m struggling with a catch-22. There is so much unregulated media content floating around about Ukraine and Russia that you find yourself looking for a news source which reliably checks it’s sources, but then you instinctively start to doubt the impartiality of media which has been regulated.
There is also no weighting to the information. The accusations of war crimes come thick and fast, but given the criteria of war crimes, without being flippant about it, it would seem quite difficult in a hot war zone not to be a war criminal…
War crimes are defined in the statute that established the International Criminal Court, which includes:
Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, such as:
Willful killing, or causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health
Torture or inhumane treatment
Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property
Forcing a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power
Depriving a prisoner of war of a fair trial
Unlawful deportation, confinement or transfer
Taking hostages
Directing attacks against civilians
Bodo League massacre during the Korean War in 1950
Directing attacks against humanitarian workers or UN peacekeepers
Killing a surrendered combatant
Misusing a flag of truce
Settlement of occupied territory
Deportation of inhabitants of occupied territory
Using poison weapons
Using civilians as shields
Using child soldiers
Firing upon a Combat Medic with clear insignia.
When I imagine a “war criminal” I imagine some immoral depravity that marks the perpetrator as a monster and mass murderer. But a good number of those war crimes might be committed by a frightened soldier in a panic.
We seem to be giving the “war” part of war crime a free pass, while we obsess about whether grotesquely violent actions are criminal or not.
It’s very difficult to assess who are the winners and losers in Ukraine, but I would humbly suggest one of the big losers is the Western media, whose demonisation of Putin is having diminishing returns.
By shutting down sources of Russian news narrative, whether it’s propaganda or not, makes the Western powers look weak and afraid, and Western news reportage look fundamentally biased and partisan… because that’s exactly what it is.
Now this would seem to be a lot more objective and well informed, although it pays to cynical and reserve judgement until you see supporting corroboration and resonance with known information.
https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/
@Breeks 8 April, 2022 at 8:53 am
That’s a good link and I read it with interest. Lots of convincing chronology, smart graphs, plausible detail …
Until, almost at the end, I found this:
“In his speech of February 24, Vladimir Putin stated the two objectives of his operation: “demilitarize” and “denazify” the Ukraine. So, it is not a question of taking over the Ukraine, nor even, presumably, of occupying it; and certainly not of destroying it.”
So I guess the entire article is a great, steaming, pile of shite.
I guess also that some Putinistas will be along in a moment to point out that as some Ukrainian buildings still have roofs on, Ukraine is certainly not being destroyed.
re struggling with a catch-22
To ease the emotional assault, and simplify processing of the propaganda, it might be worth applying godwins law (or the French preschool equivalent for insults, c’est lui qui dit qui l’est) to the trust and verify maxim and default to distrust but verify if you still care enough for the originator, their cause, or the subject at hand.
With that in mind, irrespective of the colour of armbands on display, here’s an odd topic to be overheard during sniper disrupted bread distribution in occupied Mariupol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtLFT2sbBg&t=912s
Since it begins/ends with statement about children being injected with something completely different, question arises as to whether the missed/edited conversation was questioning the sanity of those enabling the carnage if both sides insist on similar health & safety protocol – if not quite the same experimental drugs for the kids – during contemporary ‘pandemic’ season.
@Breeks 8 April, 2022 at 5:54 am
“a good number of those war crimes might be committed by a frightened soldier in a panic”
Indeed, Breeks, no argument there. In the heat of the moment it’s kill, or be killed.
Some things are more clear-cut though.
You can’t sustain a panic for 4 weeks, especially when many of the people “panicking” you are infirm pensioners, who are dying off slowly as you restrain them in a small room.
Everybody in Eastern Europe remembers what happened the last time hordes of Russian troops rampaged West, all the way to Berlin. That’s one of the reasons the reaction to it happening again is at such a visceral level.
Simply unleashing these hordes of under-trained, poorly-disciplined, badly-equipped, trigger-happy amateurs on Ukraine is a war crime in itself.
stuart mctavish says:
8 April, 2022 at 9:36 am
re struggling with a catch-22
To ease the emotional assault, and simplify processing of the propaganda, it might be worth applying godwins law…
I’ll raise your Godwin’s Law an Occam’s Razor, and suggest that clip is just a weak translation of “injecting” your kids with food.
I’m also trying hard extremely hard “not” to succumb to Godwin’s law. I don’t think it’s helpful, hence I regularly suppress the voices in my head which shout “Einsatzgruppen” whenever I read stories about what the Azov Militia with their “SS” insignia targeting ethnic Russians before being “adopted” into the Ukraine Military. Sometimes Godwin’s Law is a little near the knuckle.
Never trust any government that first blocks all truthful political news in your own country,
Then uses its wined and dined MSM to attack your citizens with lies and propaganda right before elections and referendums
Never trust any government that tells you autrocities are taking place in another country, so our solution is to copy their behaviour, we murder them while hiding in a cave or a second choice is to place put them before kangaroo courts. Without public scrutiny or openly televised. While we bomb and obliterate their civilians under illegal wars.
Never trust msm or the government that wines and dines them, for incarcerating journalists and reporters under trumped up charges on both sides of the border.
Never trust a government that uses experimental vaccines on it citizens. Before the vaccine trials have concluded in 2023.
Peculiar as this may seem, we are not talking about a foreign government here, but ours
And we are bombarded constantly with information from our own government for not recognising a dictatorship country like China or Russia for example controlling the news narratives in their countries. For political purposes.
While our country copies their actions by banning any alternative news media they do not wish us to read or hear from the outside world.
Nor will it allow Scotland to have its own broacdcasting company.
Trans- gender issues are also controlled by our governments.
And dissenting voices are crushed and ridiculed with the aid of wined and dined msm not calling them out or questioning the biological oddity of the new narrative.
Our governments political leaders newly pretend. they do not know something they have known all their lives.
This is a new form of dictatorship pushing down on its citizens to object to the unsafe conditions being imposed on over half of its population.
It is confusing which countries government propaganda to believe.
The West made a huge mistake in 1945. Instead of stopping in Berlin they should have continued eastwards until they reached the ocean. In reality there would not have been much opposition from Russia as the West, well the USA, had the nuclear option, which ended resistance in Japan very swiftly.
I am no Historian but know that his was considered but subsequently dropped. Gorbachev is the only decent, competent and realistic Politician ever to come out of Russia.
No doubt the Putin lovers will be up in arms at my comment. However, posts by scum no’s 1, 2 and 3 are never read by me.
You were bringing this to our attention many years ago and you were dismissed on this site for being fanatical about bio men in womans sport and prisons, now its all i see on social media. Your a canary in a coalmine!
@James Che 8 April, 2022 at 11:34 am
“Never trust a government that uses experimental vaccines on it citizens”
Hmmm, that would be every government in the world then, including the Scottish Government.
Not sure where your argument is heading, James. Are you calling for an end to all governments then?
Or just for an end to covid vaccinations? Either option seems infeasible IMHO.
@Chas – 8 April, 2022 at 12:24 pm
There are many reasons why nuking Russia in 1945 or afterwards was never feasible:
1) Absence of bombs. The US did not even have a third bomb to drop on Japan. Construction of the initial test bomb and the two live bombs consumed all of the available nuclear resources. That situation persisted for several years.
2) Bomb yields. The “small” yield of the WW2 fission bombs would have had little effect on a vast country like Russia, with widely separated production and population facilities. Even when the far more powerful H bombs came along later, hundreds or thousands of them were needed to act as a credible threat, along with ICBM’s to provide a credible delivery system.
3) At the end of the war, the bulk of the Russian military was actually in Europe.
4) Public opinion. Years of relentless wartime propaganda had firmly placed Russia as our ally. A far more engaged public of the time (think establishment of the NHS) just would not have stood for an attack on Russia. People wanted peace.
John Main
The threat of impending disaster is often enough!
John main,
Neither of your interpretations.
But to recognise that msm and governments alter perceptions of its civilians by directing the narrative in all countries.
Hunter bidens laptop is a good example of not allowing citizens to have all the facts until after an election.
But that narrative is no longer required to be hidden, and now a change is required for the president of america now war is looming.
Time will soon tell on that one.
Propaganda is a useful tool for all countries, and is used in all countries.
The problem with shouting wolf to many times to your citizens , is when something does happen.
most citizens end up doubting the stories as holding all truthes.
Take the trans- gender new identity politics for instance.
After centuries and millions of years of biology being only recognised as man or woman, male or female species
we are now being asked to believe them in a new story.
our politicians and msm do propaganda really well.
But most of the population do not agree with this new propaganda. Except for a minority like NS and k s.
With idiots like this given leading our country given the msm the title heading to their daily news page,
Why on earth are we going to believe any thing else they tell us,
Opps one to many given’s .
JohnMain 12:35.
No need to end government per se just make certain you elect one you can trust.
Putting an x in a tick box is where the real politics of democratic accountability begins.
The jabbers and their eugenicist origins are another matter.
As the cauldron tightens in on the Nazi’s at the Donbas, the Ukrainian forces are becoming more desperate by the day, now we have an attack at Kramatorsk Train Station that has killed women and children waiting there.
This has again as in Bucha and other areas of Ukraine been blamed on Russia, however the booster section of the missile can clearly be seen in a photos and it a Tockka-U missile booster system, which has written on it for the children in Russian.
Russia no longer uses the Tochka-U missile system it hasn’t done so for a few years now, and it wouldn’t use it in this operation for the very same reason as I’ve pointed out it could be used as a false Russia attack, Russian forces use the Iskander missile system from 2020 onwards.
The Ukrainian forces however do use the Tochka-U missile system, and with Putin’s operation in Ukraine nearing a conclusion, Ukrainian forces will stop at nothing to implicate Russian forces in warcrimes that they themselves have committed.
Have Putin’s Poodles started taking their medications again and are they wearing their tin foil hats yet?
How is living in an alternate reality going for you? The reality where you find it impossible to support another nations right to be Independent. You share so much in common with British Nationalists and other Yoons in your alternate reality. That is that any kind of ‘Independence is Verboten.’
I think you lot wont be happy until every last living Ukrainian is dead and every last Scot along with them.
Putin is the real 21st centuries Adolf Hitler so stick yer Godwin’s Law up yer Brit Nat Yoon arses.
Here’s a link to today’s edition of UK Column News.
If any of the Zelensky supporters posting here would like to point out any factual inaccuracies in the UKC analysis, it would be very welcome. Then, perhaps, we could have a civilised ‘discussion’ about what appears to be happening.
http://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-8th-april-2022
I am not talking about whose side to be on.
I suggest that any politician whom tries make us believe that men are women, while still retaining all their nuts n bolts, are safe to be in childrens and womens safe spaces,
They are Are telling and propagandering very tall stories.
And if they can lie, obfuscate, and try deceive it’s citizens on such a big elephant like that.
There are no limits to what or how much untruths they will tell us.
Just making the same point as the Rev and Alba,
@Breeks
Hear you loud and clear but remain somewhat concerned at the ease with which Canada’s truckers and America’s proud boys and constitution were defamed and ripped to shreds by judicially sanctioned white lies that imply she’s either growing her beard or needs an urgent upgrade to a Gillete mac3.
Accordingly my own catch 22, being not immune to an over indulgence in stress related food injections myself, is whether to favour Mr Myagi’s apposite advice, ie ”when tempers rise lower your fists/ when fists rise lower your temper” – which might inadvertently mean tolerating, in perpetuity, Shanghai droning of the type :
”Please comply with covid restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing”
https://twitter.com/aliceysu/status/1511558828802068481?cxt=HHwWgsDS_eCvkfopAAAA
Or to get fit enough to fully embrace the random damage to be expected with the more spirited wisdom of Mr Strumner’s ”anger can be power..”
Mr Myagi
https://everydaypower.com/mr-miyagi-quotes/
v
Clash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnliAafBYzU&t=78s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4YtR9SsY2Q ( 🙂 )
Mark Dice In Disguise Trolling City Council About His “Primary Concern” (re. transphobia): Video:
https://tinyurl.com/28ujztx6
Time for the Spring of Discontent…
Food prices soar to record levels on Ukraine war disruptions, https://archive.ph/Bvk8j
God knows what the summer and beyond is going to be like. As for energy price rises in October, I doubt there will be any companies left by then.
What a mess.
Rev,
This is from the commenting rules:
8. Remember you’re talking to people.
If you were in the pub with some friends and someone asked you what you wanted to drink, would you say “Pint of lager shandy, please, Bob. A*** G* B****!”? If you wouldn’t bellow slogans at them every time you’d finished speaking, then don’t do it in bloody comments either.
The same goes for signing your name at the bottom of your comment. We can see your name on the left-hand side already. If you want people to know you’re called Steve, call yourself Steve in the name box, not “Super_Sovereign_Warrior952”.
Likewise, if, in the pub, I said, ‘Oi, fuckface, fancy a pint?’, would that be acceptable to nearby customers and/or the staff?
So, can I ask that a further rule be considered?
It’s helpful when commenters specify who they’re referring to so that others can go back to see what’s being responded to. And, of course, adding the time-stamp saves too much scrolling etc.
But opening a comment with, e.g. ‘Putin’s Poodle @12.34’ is just gratuitous antagonism, designed to be offensive, and lowers the tone of discussion regardless of whatever follows in the actual comment.
I don’t know if anyone else would support such a rule or if it contravenes ‘free speech’ in some way, but I’m probably not the only one who finds it wearing as well as detrimental to the overall appearance of btl discourse.
If the context wasn’t so serious, this would be hilarious:
twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1512454953255809025
If you’re one of those Ukraine supporters who are all happy because you’re capable of flying the nation’s flag the right way up and/or get a warm glow from quoting stuff you saw on Newsnight etc, this won’t be your cup of tea.
But it happens to be what informed analysis looks like, so you may wish to consider keeping it for future reference.
Reiner Fuellmich talking to Alex Thomson:
brandnewtube.com/watch/reiner-fuellmich-with-alex-tomson_wVKI81PtnNV48Kp.html
The problem is Ian that the blog stealer thinks constantly invoking the mantra ” the Rev says and I agree with him” enables his ability to be as insulting and insufferable as possible , as I have commented if you have a blog of your own why would you feel it necessary to commandeer the comments section of another persons blog , if you were so politically astute , educational and entertaining why would your greatness not be recognised with people flocking to your own blog (I have my own suspicions)
I have felt from the outset that the blog stealer is here to create division and unrest by his repeated statements that he wouldn’t be surprised if the Rev just wound the site up and he would support that action because it is full of no marks or nativist skid marks
It looks like Edinburgh city council are trying to out do Sturgeon on anti-Russian sentiment, though even Edinburgh council doesn’t want to kick-off WWIII just yet, as Sturgeon has called for with her no-fly zone over Ukraine.
The Russian ambassador to the UK has been told that his country’s consulate is no longer welcome in Edinburgh.
“In a strongly-worded letter to Andrei Kelin on Friday, City of Edinburgh Council leader Adam McVey told him the consulate is “no longer welcome in Edinburgh until Russia stops this illegal war and Russian troops leave Ukrainian soil”.
The warning comes after the council voted to condemn the war and made the president of Ukraine and mayor of Kyiv freemen of the city last month.”
The mayor of Kiev is ex-boxer Vitali Klitschko, whom US State Department personnel and executor of the coup in Ukraine in 2014 Victoria Nuland, wanted to replace the ousted an democratically elected Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych with.
The current Ukrainian president Zelensky has Neo-Nazi’s in his armed forces and is on record saying about them, they are what they are.
Well done Edinburgh city council, or as its better known the Three Wise Monkeys.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20056579.edinburgh-council-demands-withdrawal-russian-consul%2F
The hypocrisy of this egotistical witch is breathtaking at times.
“THE cost-of-living crisis highlights the need for Scotland to become independent, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The Scottish First Minister and SNP leader said the crisis, which has left some families struggling to feed their children, is at the forefront of next month’s local elections.”
We are in this position because of Sturgeon not because of Westminster, she has failed miserably to remove us from this putrid union, preferring instead have an understanding with Westminster, that she governs Scotland in devolved matters, and that Westminster governs everything else.
Sturgeon could’ve help mitigate much of the pain and suffering that’s coming down the line economically if she had held an indyref, Brexit was a a fantastic opportunity to exit the ball and chain union, but she betrayed us, and she will continue to betray us, of that there can be no doubt.
Don’t give the SNP anymore votes, vote for the Alba party.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F20056127.nicola-sturgeon-cost-of-living-crisis-highlights-need-scottish-independence%2F
@twatbynametwatbynature 6.09 pm
Your comments weren’t worth rendering in to print the first time you bored-off about it, so why you think they merit repetition is anyone’s guess. It’s hardly exceptional to point out that in the BTL comments section of the Rev’s own site, it’s passing strange that the nativist moon howlers feel it is appropriate – brave even – to give those pointing out their regressive nationalism pelters, abuse and abuse them variously for not being “real nationalists”, or being a NuSNP plant, or a closet yoon etc. etc., but they take such offence when it’s pointed out that Rev Stu himself labelled franchise change blood and soil nationalism.
Neither is it at all surprising if those subject to such abuse point out that it’s odd the brave (overwhelmingly) anonymous blood and soil keyboard warriors doling out the abuse, never criticise Rev Stu’s position, or critique his original analysis of why nativism’s case is shit.
What has the status of my own blog (which I haven’t looked at for months, and have neither the time or real technical knowledge of WordPress to bother keeping up) has anything to do with what I post here, or how often escapes me. Plenty of individuals with nothing much to recommend them post way more than I do.
The fact you just can’t stop yourself returning to the fact Rev Stu opposes the nativist narrative obviously sticks in yer craws, but you don’t have the courage to take him on about it yourselves. Such is life. Moral cowards are like that.
I have said I’m surprised Stu hasn’t pulled the plug given the way things are going. It’s not been something that any reasonable person would describe as “repeated”: but you’re NOT a reasonable person, are you? Until and unless Rev Stu decides otherwise, I’m as entitled to post here as anyone else.
The fact it gets under the skin of some of the skid marks on the independence movement who get their panties in a bunch about it is a good thing. Since most of the adults appear to have “left the building” in BTL comment terms, when and to the extent I can I’ll continue to hold the moon howlers to account and to point and laugh at their unreason.
The fact that you and few other cry bullies don’t like it is just a bonus.